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Gawin Caskey is thirty years old, reliable, liked by everyone, and quietly exhausted in a way he can't quite name.
He's been in a relationship for five years. They don't fight. They don't struggle. They just exist alongside each other - in the comfortable, hollowed-out way of two people who stopped choosing each other so gradually that neither of them noticed.
Until the day Gawin realizes he isn't the only one who stopped.
Then comes Joss Way-ar, transferring in from the Chiang Mai branch. Loud, charming, perpetually late, and somehow always exactly where Gawin needs someone to be - without being asked, without making it a thing.
Gawin dislikes him immediately.
The Space You Left Behind is a slow-burn story about what it means to have been loved, and what it feels like to finally be seen. About the difference between a life that looks fine and a life that actually is. And about finding, in the most unexpected person, not just someone who shows up - but somewhere that finally feels like home.
No villains. Just people, and the spaces left behind when things fall apart - and the ones who quietly fill them.