**LILA POV**
I find out Caleb’s gone from someone else.
Not from him.
That matters.
It isn’t a dramatic reveal. No announcement. No message flagged urgent. It slips into my awareness sideways, the way things always do when someone doesn’t want to be seen making a move. A half sentence that stops short. A pause that lingers a beat too long. Someone assuming I already know.
I don’t.
And the fact that I don’t is the first wrong thing about the morning.
My routine is off before I consciously register why. I wake up earlier than usual, not rested, not exactly tired either. Just alert in that uncomfortable way that suggests something has shifted without asking permission. The cabin feels too quiet, even for this early hour. No distant movement. No familiar presence brushing the edges of m
