Chapter 54 - 55
Elodie’s POV
I’d lived here for almost seven years.
Seven years of waking up in these rooms, walking these hallways, trying to make this cold, massive place feel like home.
But as I drove through those gates after only three weeks away, it felt like I’d been gone for a lifetime. Like I was visiting a museum of someone else’s life.
Nothing had changed. The trees were the same. The perfectly manicured lawns. The fountain in the courtyard still running like it always did.
But I felt like a stranger.
The butler spotted me as I parked and hurried over, his face lighting up with what looked like genuine relief. “Luna Elodie, you’re back.”
Luna?
The title made my chest tighten, but I didn’t correct him. Just nodded. “Where’s Liora?”
“Still asleep, I believe.”
It was getting late. If she didn’t come down soon, we’d be rushing. But I couldn’t bring myself to go upstairs, to walk through those halls, to be in spaces that used to be mine.
“Could you ask Sabina to wake her?” I said quietly.