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“You left your watch on my nightstand.”
Noelle Hastings says it like a victory. Perhaps it would be, if Michael were not still your husband, if six years of marriage could be erased by three years and ten months apart, and if he did not still look at you as though leaving had never taught either of you how to let go.
When the last shift before his sabbatical ends with Michael kissing you and riding out of Pittsburgh, distance gives you both the courage to say everything you could not face in the same room. Every mile takes him farther away and yet, somehow, each one brings him closer to home.