ONE LAST TEXT
"Can we talk?"
I stared at those three words for a long moment before I let myself hit send, my heart going harder than it had any right to over three ordinary words, and then I set the phone face down on my nightstand and sat there in the dark, waiting, the first real reach I'd made toward Eli since the day he found out everything in a parking lot that felt, somehow, like it belonged to a completely different version of my life.