Chapter 22: The Space She Leaves Behind
Ethan's POV
There are ghosts that don't haunt places.
They haunt habits.
People always talk about haunted houses.
Old buildings.
Abandoned rooms.
Empty hallways.
They're wrong.
The worst ghosts don't live in walls.
They live in routines.
In reaching for a second coffee mug before remembering you're alone.
In waking because your body expects someone else's breathing beside you.
In buying honey when you don't even drink it anymore.
I learned that the hard way.
Liv doesn't slam doors when she leaves.
She never has.
Even when we were at our worst.
Even during the fights that left both of us bleeding in ways no one else could see.
She never stormed out.
She never shouted for the neighbors to hear.
She simply...
Left.
Quietly.
Delib
