His tone was almost surprised, as if he hadn’t expected me to land on my feet quite so easily. I could have pointed out that I had tons of experience starting over in new places, but I also had to admit I had sort of lucked into my current living arrangement.
“Thanks,” I replied, and decided I might as well leave it at that.
It was so hard to sit there and make myself look at him. I wanted to hang my head, to start blabbing apologies for why I’d left him like that, no letter, no goodbye, no nothing. He was so damn handsome…but also tired, shadows under his eyes, fine chin covered in stubble.
I’d done that to him.
He spoke then, voice quiet but also hard, unyielding as the granite peaks that had loomed on either side of the highway as I drove through Colorado. “So, do you want to explai
