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Rosalie's POV I noticed it on a Tuesday. Not the way I was supposed to notice it. Not with some sudden realization or illuminating revelation. I noticed because I was in the school supply closet, looking for a specific shade of yellow ochre, and my mind, occupied for the past three weeks with paintings, Lucy's schedule, the stone in my pocket, and the secure number that never answered, suddenly made a calculation that stopped me cold just as I reached for the paint. I stood in the supply closet with my hand outstretched toward the shelf. I counted backward. Then I counted forward. I stood there for a moment, put the yellow ochre back on the wrong shelf, then returned to the art room, sat down at my desk, and stared at the wall. Three weeks had passed since he left. Seven weeks, according to the calculation that had suddenly become very relevant. I had been so distracted that I hadn't noticed I was late. Lunch break. I excused myself from the teachers' lounge and
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Rosalie's POV The first week went well. I repeated that to myself every morning while I made my coffee. I was fine. I was busy. There was the gallery, Lucy's school schedule, my own work, and the March exhibition at a new space that Patricia had discussed with my agent. There were pieces to choose, prices to set, decisions to make, not to mention all the other things that filled every hour of my days. I was fine. On the third day, I texted the secure number. A short message. Just to say that we were doing well, that Lucy had won a card game, and that the sun had finally come out for the first time in a week. No response. I knew there probably wouldn't be one. He had told me that, explaining the communication restrictions surrounding classified deployments with the same calm pragmatism he'd shown during those thirty-six hours. I understood. The lack of a response told me nothing about his situation. It was simply the reality of things. The ring box was on m
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Rosalie's POV I went to his apartment at four in the morning. He hadn't asked me to. I'd lain awake in my bed after coming home from putting Lucy to bed, the ring box on my nightstand, staring at the ceiling for an hour. Then I'd gotten up and texted Mrs. Willow, who had replied [Yes, of course. Go ahead] without asking why, because Mrs. Willow understood things without needing an explanation. I left Lucy asleep and went to his apartment. He opened the door before I could knock, which meant he'd heard the elevator or had been awake and listening. Either way, it didn't matter. He was dressed, and his bag was beside the door, the neat military packing of a man who had done this more times than he could count. We didn't say much. We sat in the kitchen for a while with tea because it was four in the morning and that was what there was. The apartment had that particular quality of a place about to be emptied. Not because anything had been taken away. Because the person
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Aiden's POV Thirty-six hours passed quickly, the way time always does when you wish it would slow down. I had already packed my bags countless times. With the efficiency that came from doing it so often that it no longer required effort, only muscle memory. The exact items, in the exact order, meant I could be ready in forty minutes if necessary, twenty if the situation demanded it. This time, it took me thirty minutes because I wasn't in a hurry. Because those thirty-six hours belonged to me, and I was going to use them well. I spent the morning taking care of the last logistical details. Richard already had standing instructions. I went over them with him on the phone, making sure everything was current and accessible, that Rosie had the secure contact number, that the letter in my office was exactly where I'd said it would be, and that Richard had a copy. He asked if there was anything else he should add. I said no. I called Marcus. He asked the necessary questions
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He looked at the cold stove. Then he looked at me with the expression that was the real one, the warm one, the one that appeared when I said something he hadn't expected and it turned out to be exactly what he needed to hear. "Okay," he said. He stood. We ate at the kitchen counter, our knees touching, speaking very little. The pasta was lukewarm, but it didn't matter. What mattered was the silence between us, the deliberate choice to be there, together, while the clock kept ticking. When we finished, he took my plate and set it aside. His hands came back to mine, his thumbs tracing circles across my palms. "Tell me what you need," he said, his voice low. "As slowly and as far as you want. You're the one who decides." I looked at our joined hands, the way his larger ones completely enclosed mine. "I need you to be here. Not just physically. All of you." "I am." He lifted my hands to his lips, kissing each knuckle. "I've been here for months, Rosie. I've been waiti
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Rosalie's POV He was standing in the same place. It had been four minutes since I went into the bathroom. Maybe five. He hadn't moved from where I'd left him, standing in the kitchen with his arms at his sides now instead of resting on the back of the chair. The tension in his shoulders was visible, that particular quality of someone holding perfectly still because they didn't know which movement would be appropriate. He was waiting for me to run. I could see it. That careful stillness of someone who had learned to read me over nine months and was now reading the situation, anticipating the most likely outcome based on everything he knew about me. The bathroom. The minute alone. The history. He thought I was going to come out of that bathroom and tell him I couldn't do this. I sat down on the couch. "Okay," I said. He looked at me. Not the controlled look. The real one. The unguarded version that appeared when something caught him off guard beyond the layer
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