Chapter 67

"Give me back my passport."

"We're already over."

"Where I go next is none of your concern, Pax."

I turned off my phone, the pale glow fading into the darkness.

Silence settled around me, thick and unshakable.

Pax knew I had never left the country before.

Knew I had never even considered applying for a passport.

Yet here I was.

At the beginning of the year, he had mentioned it so casually, like it was just another passing thought.

"I heard the first snowfall in Norway is breathtaking."

"You should get your passport sorted. We should go together sometime."

Back then, I had laughed, brushing him off.

"We should save money first."

We had never traveled together.

Never even made real plans.

Not for him.

For myself.

future I never told

phone vibrated

voice poured into the quiet, edged

said we

A short, incredulous

I say we were

His confidence was maddening.

know you can't bear to leave me, but do you

You even went and got your passport, didn't

you

words sit there,

he still

Not him.

all the years we had spent

I would hold on, that I'd forgive, that

patch we'd get

thought I'd still be

Then-another message.

giving way to something gentler, something almost

when I told you I wanted to be

I wanted

The lies.

The deception.

carefully crafted act, pretending to be struggling, pretending to be

when he never was.

then Nina came back early, and everything

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