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“There is.” He stroked back my hair, the ponytail mussed from my fight. “And goddamn it, we’re going to find it.”
It was almost physical, the way my lungs expanded yet it was my heart that filled. A stitch falling off, no longer needed, because that section—the broken, jagged piece left by my sister and clotted by Theo’s departure—was healing. And with compelling clarity, I didn’t search for ways to reopen it. I folded into his embrace instead. And dared to believe.
“Guys,” Kai said. “You have to go.Now.”
Kai eyed Theo as we parted, and he squeezed my hand when I passed him to get into the car. “You sure about this?” he asked Theo over the car’s hood.
“Never been more so,” Theo said, then folded into the vehicle and started the engine.
I glanced through the window at my friend, a man who’d become my partner in more aspects of my life than I thought possible. I pressed a hand to the glass, and he lifted his.
Until we meet again, I mouthed to him.
Kai sniffed, then swiped under his nose. It was the only sign of upset he gave before he smacked the side of the car, giving Theo the go ahead. Theo made a three-point-turn, and we drove out of the alley-way, through the avenues, and over the Brooklyn Bridge, Manhattan glittering its morning dew over the river.
I covered Theo’s hand over the stick shift. He flipped his over and held tight.
Whatever happened next, whoever I had to become, it wasn’t going to be alone this time. We were in it.
Together.
