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.

a future I never told him

phone vibrated again-a voice

voice poured into the quiet, edged with disbelief, amusement barely

said we

A short, incredulous

say

His confidence was maddening.

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

were looking forward to the trip. You even went and got your passport, didn't you? Secretly, without

are you still

the words sit there,

he still thought I wouldn't

Not him.

all the years we had

would hold on, that I'd forgive, that I'd let this become

rough patch

he thought I'd still

Then-another message.

tone softened, his frustration giving way to something gentler, something almost

I wanted to be honest

was what I

The lies.

The deception.

be struggling,

when he never was.

then Nina came back early, and everything got...

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