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

phone vibrated again-a voice

into the quiet, edged with

said we broke

A short,

say

His confidence was maddening.

can't bear to leave me, but do you really have to

even went and got your

are you still

the words sit there, unread,

now, even after everything, he still

Not him.

years we had spent

would hold on, that I'd

rough patch we'd get

I'd

Then-another message.

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

I wanted

was what I

The lies.

The deception.

be struggling, pretending to be one

when he never was.

Nina came back early,

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