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The Woman In White

Author: Sresha
last update publish date: 2026-05-22 14:45:40
Julia — First-Person POV

The baby was crying.

Everything else — Iris bleeding in front of the fireplace, Alan's arm around me, Kai's voice demanding answers, the darkness that had swallowed the room — all of it became secondary in the specific, total way that everything became secondary to that sound.

Eliot.

I moved before I had finished deciding to move.

Alan's arm tightened around me — not restraining, pivoting, turning with me toward the stairs with the specific adjustment of a man who had un
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