"We came to see you."
Lily halted in her tracks, staring at her parents as if they were specters from another world. Almost six months had passed since she'd last seen them—six months that had changed her in ways they couldn't possibly understand. Yet here they were, looking exactly the same, as if no time had passed for them. Her hands clenched reflexively as she took them in, trying to reconcile their sudden appearance with the stable, happy life she'd been building with Cai.
Her and Cai spent the last few months together, acknowledging each other's growing importance in their lives and even though Cai had gone back to Petrovia, she'd been happy and stable.
