Every Breath A Prayer Teacher Who Can't Sleep

A week after Christmas, Liam sees figure at the cliff-a teacher haunted by a student's death and the question she never asked.Renee Walsh hasn't slept in three weeks. She saw the signs. She noticed everything. But she didn't ask the one question that might have saved him. Now she stands in the January cold, doing the terrible mathematics of who deserves to live when a child is dead.Liam knows this guilt intimately. He sits beside her on frozen ground and offers not comfort, but honesty: his own story of guidance that killed, of words that led to tragedy, of the priest he stopped being because he could no longer be trusted with souls.Yet even as he writes chapters proving that purpose is a delusion, he finds himself trying to show Renee why her presence still matters-visualizing connections she can't see through her grief, speaking truths he doesn't fully believe but cannot stop offering.A meditation on failure, influence, and the stubborn human refusal to let each other face the dark alone.