(Ridge)
Mira was standing beside the SUV when I stepped outside.
She wasn't crying.
She wasn't shaking.
She had one hand resting against the passenger door and her eyes fixed on the ground in front of her like she was counting herself back into the present one breath at a time.
I stopped a few feet away from her and gave her that space first.
Every part of me wanted to touch her. Pull her in. Put her behind me and make sure Nolan's name never reached her again. But this wasn't about what I wanted. It hadn't been from the second she told me she wanted to see him.
So I waited.
Crash came out behind me and shut the door quietly.
Mira looked up then.
Her eyes came to mine, and I saw it there. Not pain exactly. Not even anger anymore. Something quieter than both.
Done.
That was what
