“Someone else did,” Abby said carefully. “But I’ve kept it.”

Tonight, the kitchen was her witness.

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“Hello?” A voice, unfamiliar. Female. A little breathless from the cold.

Abby blinked. Then, despite herself, she laughed. It came out rusty, unpracticed—like a drawer that hadn’t been opened in months.

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They ate standing up, snow falling outside the window, the kitchen finally full of something that wasn’t memory.

Abby wiped her hands on her apron—a ridiculous thing printed with cartoon avocados—and walked to the kitchen doorway. There stood a woman in a navy peacoat, snow melting in her dark curls, holding a foil-covered pie dish like a shield.

Abby wasn’t cooking for anyone in particular. That was the lie she told herself as she diced onions with military precision. She was cooking because the alternative was sitting alone in the living room, scrolling through photos of friends’ engagement announcements, feeling the sharp little pinprick of a life she hadn’t quite figured out how to want—until she realized she did want it. Just not with him.