She hadn’t planned to stay this long.In truth, she hadn’t planned anything at all.When she came back to the city, it was supposed to be temporary a visit, a breath of familiarity, a selfish need to see what she’d left behind. She told herself it was curiosity, closure. But closure doesn’t ache like this. Closure doesn’t leave you sitting on the edge of a bed at 3 a.m., still wearing yesterday’s regrets like perfume that won’t fade.The city hadn’t changed much. But Liam had.Or maybe he hadn’t maybe it was just her that changed too late.He moved slower now, quieter, as if afraid to disturb something fragile. When he smiled, it was polite, practiced. And when he looked at her, it wasn’t the way he used to it was searching, distant, like he was trying to find someone who wasn’t there anymore.Sometimes, she caught him glancing toward the door when it rained, like he was waiting for someone else to walk in.And she knew who.That’s the thing about ghosts they don’t need to haunt lou
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