A Name for Us

Chapter 275. Asking.

RAFAEL

We had stopped calling it anything months ago, which I'd noticed without saying anything about it. Not because the absence of a name bothered me, I'd never needed labels the way some people seemed to.

I'd needed proximity. I'd needed steadiness. I'd needed to keep showing up, the way I'd kept showing up for fifteen years of six a.m. sessions, regardless of whether an