AliceSix days left of being Catherine Morgan, and I lay awake in the dark counting them anyway, one by one. I turned each day over in my head like if I thought about it long enough, time might slow down a little.Vaylen didn’t come home that night. I moved through the penthouse the same way I’d moved through this marriage, ensuring the rooms stayed spotless while the hours passed without sound. Nothing changed, but somehow that had stopped feeling strange a long time ago.The next morning, I counted again while standing by the bedroom window. Five days left. The city stretched below me, loud and moving and alive in a way this place never was.It was my birthday, a thought that came and went almost immediately with no excitement and no ache either, remaining just a fact.By noon, I stood at the kitchen counter stirring powder into a glass of water, watching it disappear slowly beneath the spoon. Prenatal vitamins.“Once a day,” the doctor had said two days ago, a responsibility sittin
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