TERESA'S P.O.V.
The last two weeks had been... quiet. Unsettlingly quiet, really. It was as if Adrian had vanished from my life entirely. I'd gone back to my usual routine—grocery runs, work, and the occasional walk in the park to clear my head. The empty spaces where Adrian usually haunted my thoughts and, well, my actual life, made me feel... odd. Which was ridiculous, right? I'd practically told him to leave me alone, to respect my boundaries. And now that he had, I was finding it all too lonely.
Then, the gifts started.
