Chapter 15

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.

1 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.

Relief flooded through me, but it came tangled with something heavier–something I didn’t want to name.

The girl parted her lips, as if she wanted to say more, but her boyfriend–quicker, sharper–seemed to sense the sudden shift in the air.

He grabbed her hand lightly, pulling her back, offering a quick, polite farewell before leading her away.

just like that, the

stretched again, this

for me to move into

was exhausted.

Norway,” I

as if searching for a reason to

conceding to an unseen compromise, he

have dinner with

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my mouth to refuse, but he cut

me, yell at

edges, like he wasn’t used

“Just

Don’t be so cold.”

at him then, really looked at

slight dishevelment in his normally

beneath his eyes, the kind that

way his shoulders slumped just a little, as if carrying something heavier than he knew how

nails digging into my palm.

Pain.

lodged

Two years.

of real, honest

-Thad loved him.

some small, quiet way, I still

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