CHAPTER 5 — The Trailer at Ashford Farm

Fields blur past.
Miles gives directions.
“She’s here.”
A broken trailer behind an old barn.
Inside: cold air. sickness. silence.
Then—
Clara.
Older. thinner. barely alive.
But when her eyes open:
“Graham…”
The past collapses into the present.
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Miles stands frozen in the doorway.
For the first time, his life has two halves looking at each other.