Chapter 293: Indispensable
That was what Serena Blackwood had been thinking.
She needed Elias to adapt.
She needed the new memories to settle deeper, to grow roots in places where an ordinary life would have left marks. Clothes, parties, familiar rooms, old acquaintances, public manners, social scenes. A person's life was not built only from private affection. It was built from all the small reactions the world gave back.
If Elias could stand beside her in public and accept that world without rejecting it, then the story she had given him would become sturdier.
That was Serena's logic.
But when Elias appeared in front of her again, all that logic paused.
Her eyes lit up before she could control them.
