Off the Ice
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"Things rust up here if you don't keep after them."
"Everything rusts." Liam turned from the glass, his blue eyes hard, the soft, domestic domesticity of the last ten chapters evaporating like steam off a hot kettle. "Or it rots. Or it just sits here until you forget what month it is."
Jaxson stopped the stone. The silence that rushed in to fill the space was heavy, smelling of damp wool, iron, and old fat from the breakfast pan. For the first time since they had crossed the tarmac in Teterboro, the captain looked massive in a way that wasn't comforting—just large, blocking the light, taking up too much of a room that suddenly felt like a box.