Chapter 7

“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.

I never

phone vibrated again–a

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

said we

scoff. A short,

we were over?”

confidence was

confidence was ma

of Love, Seven

Chapter 7

leave me, but do

went and got your passport, didn’t

me.”

are you still

words sit there,

everything, he still thought

Not him.

the years we had spent together.

that I’d let this become just

thought I’d still be

Then–another message.

giving way to something gentler, something almost

wanted

wanted to

-The lies.

The deception.

to be one of

came back early, and

A pause.

A sigh

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