The conversation Rae and Beckett needed to have arrived that same evening, both of them settling onto the small apartment balcony that had, over the course of the season, become their preferred venue for the conversations that mattered most.
"Priya raised some concerns about this summer," Rae said, deciding honesty was the only viable approach given everything they'd already survived together. "About whether we can realistically maintain this while both of us are navigating such intense, separate career demands."
"Is she wrong?" Beckett asked, his tone genuinely curious rather than defensive.
"I don't know," Rae admitted. "I want to believe we can handle it. But I also think it's fair to actually plan for how we're going to manage it, instead of just assuming good intentions will carry
