Chapter 168 The Week

• The week moved the way good weeks moved.
• Too fast in the living of it. Exactly right in the feeling of it.
• They swam every morning. Xavier further out. Valerie staying closer to shore but in the water every day without fail. She was a strong swimmer. He hadn't known that. There were still things he didn't know about her and discovering them one by one in the ordinary context of a shared week felt like something he hadn't realised he had been waiting for.