“You didn’t have to rush out here, y’know? She’s under right now,” Willow said, but she was smiling from her place lounging against the half-opened front door, arms crossed. Shouldering it all the way open, she cleared the way for Walker to come into their small living room.
“I know.”
The space was cramped but bright, warm and cozy in a way that places were when two people joined their accumulated lives together. It’d been like that for Alice and him too, once upon a time, despite Walker only having owned a few essentials.
He missed the intimacy of such a thing, but he was surprised that he didn’t directly miss Alice as much as he had. It was strange how quickly things changed, when only a few weeks ago he’d felt completely different about…well, everything.
He looked at his hand, fl
