HIS BY MISTAKE
Home late, sometimes past ten, sometimes not at all if a deal in another time zone kept him tethered to his phone through the night.
We fell into something that almost passed for normal. Breakfast some mornings, when our schedules happened to overlap. A text here and there, mostly logistics, when’s your next appointment, do you need the car, Marta says you didn’t eat again. Small things. Careful things.
Neither of us reaching for more than that, not after the kitchen, not after I’d told him I wanted to know the difference between duty and desire and he hadn’t been able to give me an answer.