Chapter 8 - THE LONG WINTER
The winter stretched on, a slow, grueling process of learning each other again. There were fights. There were nights where Claire cried herself to sleep and mornings where Ethan stared at the closed door of her apartment, wondering if he would ever be allowed back in.
But there were also moments of grace. Ethan learned that Claire liked her coffee black. Claire learned that Ethan actually remembered the names of all her high school friends.
They weren't husband and wife. They were two people trying to build a bridge across a canyon of their own making.
