Chapter Thirty-Five

Corbin

We shower in turns, not together, not because I don’t want her, but because I can tell she needs the privacy today, needs one thing that belongs only to her. I sit on the edge of the bed while she’s in there, listening to the water like it’s a heartbeat, hating that my body goes tight every time the pipes creak.

When she steps out wrapped in a towel, hair dripping, cheeks flushed from the h