Isabel stood in the kitchen early the next morning, leaning her hip against the counter while pale sunlight spilled through the windows and stretched across the marble floor. The twins were still asleep upstairs, the house quiet in that soft, fragile way that never lasted long once they woke up. She cracked eggs into a bowl one by one, her fingers moving carefully, then whisked them fast with her good hand until the yolks blurred into yellow foam. Her injured arm stayed tucked in the sling against her body, stiff and useless, and every now and then she sucked in a breath through her nose when the movement pulled at her shoulder. She reached for the salt, nudged the bowl closer with her wrist, then kept going like she had something to prove. Isaac walked in from the gym a minute later, pushing a hand through his damp hair as he crossed the kitchen. His shirt was off and tucked into the waistband of his shorts. Sweat glistened over his chest, his abs, the hard lines of his arms, a
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