Damian's POVI sat there for a long time, the notebook closed beneath my hand, the kitchen's quiet stillness pressing in around me.I opened it again eventually, unable to leave it alone, flipping back toward the beginning, reading through the entries a second time with more attention than my first pass had allowed. This time, I noticed details I missed initially, small annotations in the margins, dates scratched beside certain recipes, the record of an entire secret history I never once suspected existed throughout our marriage.One page caught my attention that I skimmed past too quickly before. A simple recipe for shortbread cookies,plainer than many of the other entries, though the note beside it carried more weight ‘He mentioned once, very briefly, that his mother used to make something like this before she passed. He said it in passing, almost like he didn't want me to notice he said it at all. I made these three days later. I didn't tell him why. I just left them on his desk. H
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