Mara He arrived at 3:50 with the last board already cut and his mouth set in a hard line. I opened the door before he reached it. Adrian stopped on the step with the wood under his arm and looked at me like the doorway itself was a mistake he kept making. The afternoon heat sat on his shoulders. His t-shirt clung at the chest from the truck. I stepped back and let him in without small talk. He went straight through to the deck. I followed. The final board fit into the gap with a dull wooden sound. Adrian drove the screws in fast, one after another, as if finishing the job could close whatever had opened on this same stretch of rail the day before. I stood at the top of the steps and watched the muscles in his back shift under the fabric. When the last screw sank flush he stayed crouched for a second longer than the work required, head down, one hand flat on the new wood. Then he stood and turned. “That’s it,” he said. “Gate. Deck. I’m done.” “Are you.” “Mara.” “You said afte
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