Quiet
Money

Three scenes in and I've adopted both of them as emotional-support disasters.

Whoever paced this slow burn deserves a medal and a lie-down.

“The kind of ache you don't actually want to get rid of.”

Closed my laptop. Stared at a wall. Opened it again. Kept reading.

Read it on my lunch break. Did not eat. Could not.

“I don't leave reviews. I'm leaving this one on the floor, where it left me.”

the way he says her name. that's it. that's the review.

every chapter ends one sentence too soon and I mean that as the highest praise.