Chapter 48
Ghosts of Promises
(Esha’s POV)
The gentle waves of the Pacific lapped against the shore as I sat in my aunt’s sunroom, staring out at the endless blue stretching to the horizon.
It was beautiful here, a place where time seemed to slow down, where the world’s chaos softened into something bearable.
Aunt Sharon and her husband, Adam, had made this place a haven, one that Amara and I had escaped to countless times growing up. It was the only place where I felt safe—safe enough to unravel, to let my guard down and just be.
Victoria, British Columbia, had become my home over the past two years, ever since I’d left Edinburgh.
It was a decision I’d made the moment I saw those two pink lines on the pregnancy test, standing in my dorm bathroom with Cassandra trying to calm me
