Isabelle's POV

The world was falling apart outside, and I was doing everything I could not to fall apart on the inside.

August needed to get back to work with everything that had been happening, but he didn't want to leave me alone. So he started splitting his time. One day, he would go to the office. The next, he would stay home with me.

I still felt strange, although I had grown calmer as the week went by. Even so, I would wake up in the middle of the night, frightened and thrashing arou