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Sophia flew back to Portland the morning after Victor came home, landing to grey skies and Noah waiting at the gate with Amara, already mid-sentence about something that had happened at school in her absence. She let his account wash over her, grateful for the ordinary noise of it after three days s

The Ethan Foundation's annual gala had been held in Chicago for five consecutive years, in the same hotel ballroom, with the same familiar rhythm of remarks and silent auction and the video montage that always drew the room quiet around the same moment — Ethan at seven, at ten, at fourteen, footage

He looked at her, and she looked back at him, steady, unafraid, waiting. "Will you marry me," he said. "Not because we need to. Not for Noah, though I think he'd tell you it belongs in the journal either way. Because I love you, and I have for longer than I let myself admit, and because everything

There was no announcement. Neither of them was the kind of person who announced things, and neither of them saw much point in trying to become that kind of person now, however significant the private news actually was. What happened instead was that people began to notice, and then to mention what t

February in Portland was exactly what Ethan had said it would be — green and rainy and the kind of month that rewarded people who had made peace with weather. Adrian had made peace with weather over the past year, the way he'd made peace with a great many things he once would have resisted or resent