Chapter 51 — "Melvin's Reckoning"Melvin was rearranging the same stack of mail for the third time when Sora knocked on his door.He almost didn't recognize the sound of it. Two years ago she would have just walked in, and before that, back when things were good, before he'd ruined it with his own hands, she wouldn't have needed to knock at all. Now she stood in the hallway of the apartment he'd rented after discharge, waiting, like a stranger."Hey," he said, opening the door. "I wasn't expecting.... this is a surprise.""Can I come in?""Yeah. Of course." He stepped back, and she came in carrying nothing but her bag and an expression he didn't like, the kind of careful blankness people wear when they've rehearsed something on the drive over."You want coffee? Water?" He was already moving toward the kitchen out of old habit, the muscle memory of being a husband, a host, a man who took care of things."Melvin." She sai
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