They Went on a Holiday Cruise and Left Me With a Man They Called a “Problem”

on. Thomas listened with his eyes closed and his head tilted slightly back, his posture finally, genuinely at rest.

The snow fell outside the window. The fire hummed. The house breathed around us, both familiar and newly inhabited, both mine and something more than mine.

When the last note faded and the silence that followed felt complete and good, Thomas continue reading …