Chapter 24
Three weeks after the fight, Harper and Sebastian fell into something that felt dangerously close to normal.
They did not talk about it. They did not analyze it or put labels on it or acknowledge that somewhere between the apology and the present moment, they had stopped performing and started living. But it happened anyway, in small increments that accumulated into a routine neither of them had planned.
Sebastian stopped making unilateral decisions about the Adriatic. Harper stopped bracing for him to revert to controlling behavior. They had dinner together most nights, trading stories about their days like actual married couples did. Sebastian learned that Harper got cranky when she skipped lunch, so he started having his assistant send food to the renovation site. Harper l
