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.

never told him about.

phone vibrated again–a voice

voice poured into the quiet, edged with

we broke

A short, incredulous laugh.

we were over?”

confidence was

confidence was ma

of Love, Seven

Chapter 7

I know you can’t hear to leave me, but do you really have to

even went and got

me.”

you

words sit there, unread, untouched.

now, even after everything, he still

Not him.

after all the years we had

I would hold on, that I’d forgive, that I’d let this become just another rough patch

he thought I’d still be waiting

Then–another message.

tone softened, his frustration giving way to

when I told you I wanted to be honest with

was what I wanted to tell you.”

-The lies.

The deception.

pretending to be one of

Nina came back early, and everything got… messy.”

A pause.

A sigh

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