Chapter 20
NORA
We sat down to dinner, the three of us around the table the way we had so many nights in my first life, and I watched them with new eyes this time, eyes that had already seen the balcony, already heard the words I never mattered, already watched a hotel folder full of charges that lined up with birthdays and holidays and a memorial I'd stood through alone. I watched for the things I'd missed the first time, and once I knew to look, I found them everywhere, small and constant, threaded so naturally through the evening that I understood exactly why I'd never caught them before.
Daniel told some story about a client meeting that had gone sideways, some minor disaster with a spilled coffee and an embarrassed junior associate, and Sophia laughed before he even got to the funn
