Serena stared at her reflection in the mirror, the weight of everything crashing down around her. Her heart felt heavy, her thoughts a tangled mess of confusion and doubt. The celebration from Eli’s latest victory still echoed in her ears, but it all felt so distant, like she was living in a different world.
The truth was, she couldn’t take it anymore. The pressure, the intensity of Eli’s world, and most importantly, the uncertainty swirling around his unresolved feelings for Arietta—it was too much. Serena felt like she was losing herself in it all. She needed space, needed to get away from everything to figure out what she truly wanted. And staying in the middle of it all, especially with her own emotions all over the place, wasn’t helping.
She then remembered the conversion she had wi
