Sophia's POVI wasn't really listening to Mini anymore.She was still talking beside me, something about her coworker and the disastrous blind date again, circling back to embellish a detail she'd apparently left out the first time, but her voice had faded into a kind of background hum somewhere behind my own thoughts, which had drifted, without my permission, back to the plate of eggs sitting cold on the kitchen table that morning.I kept replaying the look on Ethan's face. Hopeful, then confused, then something quieter and more wounded once I'd walked past him without a word. I told myself I didn't owe him softness yet, not after two nights of silence following an accusation he still hadn't properly apologized for, but some small, tired part of me kept circling back to the memory anyway, picking at it the way you pick at a bruise just to see if it still hurts."Sophia."I blinked."Reyes," the receptionist called again, louder this time, glancing up from her desk with the patient ex
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