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“I want to tell you," Joel says softly. "It’s just–”
“I know.”
A pause for his own understanding to bloom.
“You’ve been livin’ with something, too.”
“Yes.”
“You don’t have to tell me, neither.”
“I–”
All of it. An attempt to reach out to something beyond. All of it an attempt to strike a match against wet and crumbling logs in a stone circle. To chase out the dark and the cold and the sharp teeth. All of it. An invitation, a hand held out to another frightened voice in the fringes. Try it. Try to make it light with me.~*~
You, twenty-seven and aching, meet Joel Miller, forty-two and longing, at a small-town-Colorado bar one snowy night, end up at home with him in your bed. That same night, an invisible string is tied into place between you. As you unveil your hardest truths over an ensuing week spent with him, the string's pulled tight when he doesn't even flinch. When Texas finally calls him back, will it be enough? Will it be enough to bring you together again? It’ll just have to be.