JAMIE SPENT THE ENTIRE morning Callum was due to arrive up in his bedroom. He claimed he was packing his suitcase for his return to London in a few days, but Nerea wasn’t fooled. He was nervous and eager and those bedroom windows had the best view of the road as it came out of the valley. He saw the car before Nerea knew it was close and ran down the stairs announcing that Callum was home. But he hung back, lurking in the entry hall, when the car stopped in front of the house.
Nerea stood in the open doorway as Callum retrieved his suitcase from the boot. Homecomings could be hard. They were emotional, draining, and — more often than not — came at inconvenient times of the day or night. But they were also one of the sweetest parts of Nerea and Callum’s life together.
Nerea remembered the
