I plop down onto the sofa in the lounge, as soon as once more scanning the unfamiliar environment of their quiet, but echoey, house.

“We bought married,” I say.

There’s an extended, heavy pause.

“It’s been two hours…”

“No—” I shake my head. “Not at this time. Earlier than.”

“Yeah.” He chuckles. “I do know, Field.”

I increase a forehead. “You understand?”

“Yeah, I do know.”

“How do you know?”

“I labored for essentially the most harmful prison group on the earth. I had greater than sufficient means to test in on you two once in a while.”

“I really feel so violated…” I joke.

I spot a well-known image nestled in a body on a brief finish desk throughout the room. I push off the sofa and wander over to get a greater look.

“Two years in the past. Proper after you died…” I mutter. “They shipped us each again house and so they dropped us off on the airport in Vegas, of all locations….” I chuckle. “I believed it was an indication. She thought I used to be an fool, however she stated sure anyway.”

I seize the body, overwhelmed with crippling nostalgia on the desert sand surrounding the three of us. It’s a foolish photograph — fully unprofessional given the setting — however I can consider loads of instances abroad when that was the norm. Fox stands in-between me and Caleb along with his arms wrapped round our shoulders, holding the three of us collectively like he all the time did.

“I dunno, with out you round, we simply form of panicked. Wanted one thing to cling to, so we selected one another.”

“Why didn’t you inform anyone?” he asks.

I set the body again down. “Three days later, she kicked me out. Three days after that…” I sigh. “I haven’t seen her since.”

“You’re nonetheless married?”

I smile. “Technically, yeah. She wished to divorce, however… I’ve been avoiding that.” He says nothing as I roam the room with stressed toes. “Fox, I have to ask you one thing. It would sound bizarre however simply bear with me…”

“Go forward.”

“What are you petrified of? Like — worst-case situation, worst nightmare you may consider. What’s it?”

“Properly, that’s simple,” he says, his voice low.

“Dani?”

“Yeah. Shedding her — and even worse…” He pauses. “Even worse could be the considered placing her via shedding me… once more.”

“However nonetheless, you keep along with her regardless that you already know that might occur any day now?”

“In fact.”

“Why?”

“As a result of I’ve cheated loss of life as soon as already,” he solutions. “That doesn’t occur twice.”

I chew my lip. “Proper…”

“Field, we don’t get lots of time on this world,” he says. “Particularly folks like us. You reside the life you may whilst you can.”

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