#Chapter 143: To Her and I toYou and Her

Lauren Sophia’s cabin looked… worst then I thought it would be. Untouched. Weather-worn. Quiet. I didn’t even want to imagine how much she hated it. The mud, the low closet space, and I’m sure the bugs. I didn’t even known this was were she was, or that Mark had been with her. That they were even… close. Before the battle, before the betrayal, before she threw herself between me and a blade that would’ve pierced straight through my spine. And now? Now, she was a ghost with a name I still couldn’t say without flinching. The path leading up to her old place was overgrown, but not neglected. Wildflowers bloomed between the stones. The ivy hadn’t claimed the porch. Someone had been tending to it. Carefully. Lovingly. That couldn’t have been Sophia’s doing, could it? I looked up and my heart softened a bit, finding that gently giant. Of course, he had. Mark wass in what looked like a garden, crouched low, his sleeves rolled to his elbows, hands deep in the soil. He