Chapter 302. What She Built.
SEDONA
The game had stopped resembling tennis approximately twenty minutes ago.
I wasn't sure exactly when it had crossed the line, somewhere between Lake introducing a rule about what happened when the ball hit the net post, and Drew adding a counter-rule that Lake immediately challenged on and Nick attempting to moderate a disagreement he'd partially caused by agreeing to both rules simultaneously.
I watched from the garden bench and didn't say anything.
Dante sat beside me. His shoulder against mine. Neither of us is talking. I had been thinking, across the past few weeks of how far one person could travel across the length of a single life. And what that traveling actually costs, and what it has built.
There had been a girl who left a marriage becau
