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Lena curled her fingers around his.
The house had been too quiet for eighteen months. Not the peaceful kind of quiet, but the heavy, held-breath kind, like a phone that had stopped ringing mid-conversation.
“You’re not a monster.”
He pushed his plate away. Ran a hand through his wet hair. When he looked at her again, the careful distance in his eyes was gone. In its place was something rawer. Younger. Terrified and hopeful in equal measure.
Then Mark did the last thing she expected. He laughed—a short, breathless, disbelieving sound. stepmom makes the first move
“You were. Your father is gone.” She let the weight of that settle. “And I’m not asking for a wedding, Mark. I’m asking if you want to stop pretending, just for one night, that this is only grief keeping us in the same room.”
She was his father’s widow. A technicality with a pulse. For Mark, she was a living museum exhibit labeled: Dad’s Second Wife. Handle with Awkwardness. Lena curled her fingers around his
She decided, for the first time in her careful, grieving life, to stop ignoring things.