Chapter 19

Chapter Nineteen

No Secrets Left Between Us

Lilly

By the time we pulled into Lovelace, night had settled over the town like a quiet secret. The streetlights glowed pale gold against the empty sidewalks, and the shopfronts along Main were dark except for the flicker of a TV inside Ropers’ windows.

Sawyer turned into the narrow alley behind Bloom I just felt seen.

And as the firelight from the other room dimmed to a soft glow on the walls, I thought:

Maybe love wasn’t a sudden thing at all. Maybe it was this—the calm that came when you finally let go and let life in.

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