As Ryan brought Zoe back to the Clark family estate, it was well past midnight.

When the car reached the wrought iron gates of the estate, Zoe, who had been silent the whole way, finally spoke up, "Could we perhaps stop for a moment?"

It had been two years since she had last visited, and she knew that her grandmother and brother were also here, along with the rest of the Clark family. Somehow, she felt unprepared to face so many people.

It wasn't that she had grown distant from her grandmother, brother, or the members of the Clark family during these two years apart, but rather that she felt...