Chapter 44
DANIEL
I couldn't stop turning it over, some nights lying awake long after Nora's breathing had evened out beside me, staring at the ceiling and running through the same question until it wore a groove into me. She used to want me. Not the calm, patient version of wanting that she performed so easily now, but the real thing, desperate and constant and entirely mine, and somewhere in the last few months that had simply stopped, quietly, without a single fight to mark the moment it happened.
I told myself at first it was stress. The wedding, the adjustment of actually living together full time instead of just dating around the edges of my real life, the general exhaustion of settling into something as large as marriage. People changed after weddings. It was normal, I told mysel
