“You said you had news,” Scarlett said, voice steady though her fingers betrayed her—nails worrying the cardboard sleeve.
He smiled, a small, apologetic tilt. “I didn’t plan for this to land on us like a deadline. But I don’t want to wait until we’re both ghosts in other people’s stories.” letspostit 24 11 26 scarlett rose and dakota qu updated
“Send me updates,” she said.
Outside, the sky turned the color of ink; Scarlett felt the city fold around them like a book closing gently. They left the café with two coffees cooled by intent and a map that had been redrawn, not erased. “You said you had news,” Scarlett said, voice