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.

future I never

phone vibrated again–a

voice poured into the quiet, edged with

we broke up?”

A short,

say we

was maddening.

confidence was ma

of Love,

Chapter 7

you can’t hear to leave me, but

to the trip. You even went and got

me.”

are you still

sit

even after everything, he still thought

Not him.

all the years we had

that I’d let this become

he thought I’d still be waiting

Then–another message.

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

you I wanted to be honest

wanted to tell

-The lies.

The deception.

to be struggling, pretending to be one of us when

Nina came back early,

A pause.

A sigh

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