One Night, No Names
“But I know this, if we’re together, it’s not because I owe you for saving me from paperwork.”
“And if you ever say ‘you should be grateful’ like that again,” she adds, voice calm but unyielding, “we’re going to have a bigger problem than memory loss.”
Aiden exhales, some of the tension draining from his frame.
“I hear you,” Aiden said..
I studied him one more time, searching for that flicker again.
It’s gone.
But the echo of it lingers.
And for the first time since waking up, I wasn’t just confused.