Chapter 13 The Empty Office

• I don't promise anything. I tell her that straight to her face, and she doesn't push it, just looks at me like she already knows my answer doesn't change what's coming.
• For two weeks after that conversation, nothing happens, and I let myself believe, stupidly, that maybe nothing will. Maybe Han loses interest. Maybe she finds another way. Maybe a thousand years of running finally ends here, with her staying, with us figuring out some version of this that doesn't end in her disappearing off the edge of my life the way she's disappeared off the edge of a hundred lives before mine.
• I should have known better.