Chapter 126

Nora POV

Six months pass in the kind of blur that only comes after everything has already broken and been pieced back together wrong-side-up.

David finishes physical therapy the week before Thanksgiving. The last session ended with him jogging in place on the treadmill while the therapist clapped like he’s just run a marathon instead of simply remembering how to trust his own legs again. When he walks out of the clinic under his own power, I’m waiting in the parking lot with Lucy on my hip and a coffee in both hands. He stops in front of us, takes the cup from my fingers, and kisses me so thoroughly the paper sleeve crinkles between us.

“Still got it,” he murmurs against my mouth.

“Never doubted you,” I tell him, and mean it.

The life insurance check from Malcolm arrives two weeks la