NOAH ♠️I had seen the light under the bathroom door before I heard her voice.I had gotten up for water, nothing more purposeful than that, and I had noticed the thin line of light beneath the bathroom door and paused in the hallway, and that was when I heard it, the low murmur of her voice beneath the sound of running water, careful, hushed, the particular register of someone speaking to a person they did not want overheard.I did not open the door. I stood in the hallway and listened to the shape of her voice without the words, and I did not let my face show a single thing about what I understood that murmur to mean.When the water stopped and the door opened, I was still standing there, and I asked the question plainly, the way I had learned to ask questions over the last several weeks, without heat, without accusation, simply the bare shape of what I wanted to know.“Who were you talking to?”She looked at me for a moment, and I watched her compose herself, the specific effort of
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