Chapter 75

The hallway was dim, narrow, and heavy with the scent of rain. Faint droplets

tapped against the windows, the muffled hum of water slipping through cracks in the pavement outside filling the silence between us.

I froze.

For a brief, breathless moment, I thought this was it.

The moment the truth would slip out.

That Pax would finally piece everything together.

That my plans to leave would be dragged into the open, no longer something I

could quietly pack away with the rest of my belongings.

But instead-

He smiled.

"Of course we are."

His certainty was effortless, unwavering.

He thought she was talking about Norway.

but it came tangled with something heavier-

say more, but

offering

that, the

stretched again, this time

originally planned for me to move into

But I was exhausted.

Norway," I said, my voice careful, steady. He hesitated, lingering at my doorstep as if searching for a reason to stay. Then, as if

have dinner with me

he cut me off

you're still angry, hit me, yell at me, do whatever you

edges, like he wasn't used to

be like this. Don't be so...

at him then,

in his normally

eyes, the kind

just a little, as if carrying something heavier than he knew how

fingers tighter, nails digging into my

Pain.

relentless, an ache lodged deep beneath my

Two years.

years of

I had loved him.

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