After grief enters a home, it does not leave the same way it arrives.It settles.It spreads.It changes the way silence feels, the way light enters a room, even the way footsteps sound on polished floors.For Isabella, the world had become quieter, but not peaceful.Just emptier.She sat most days in the same chair by the window, her hands folded tightly in her lap, as if holding herself together through sheer effort. The estate that once felt large and comforting now felt like a structure built around absence.Her parents were gone.That truth did not arrive all at once anymore.It came in waves.Sometimes soft.Sometimes crushing.And every time it returned, her breath would catch slightly, as if her body still refused to fully accept it , Isabella,Ethan’s voice always came before his presence.Always gentle.Always careful.She turned toward him slowly as he entered the room.“I’m here,” he added immediately, as if she had called for him even when she hadn’t.She didn’t speak at
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