Chapter 28
NORA
"I know," I said. "But I want mine kept separate. I want to be the only name on it."
"Nora," he said, leaning forward slightly, his voice gentler now, careful, the way it always got when he was trying to draw something out of me without pushing too hard. "Is everything alright? Is there something happening with Daniel I should know about?"
"No," I said, too quickly, and I saw the answer land wrong even as I said it, saw something shift behind his eyes, some old paternal instinct sharpening.
"You've been different lately," he said. "Since before the wedding, honestly. Sharper. More decisive. I noticed it and told myself it was just nerves, or the natural adjustment of starting a marriage, but this," he gestured slightly, indicating the whole conversation, the steel he'd
