The Ghost Between Our Hearts

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Everyone told me I’d struck gold with Lauren. She was brilliant, driven, and possessed the kind of effortless grace that made people stop and look twice when she walked into a room. But whenever our friends raised their glasses to toast our good fortune, a quiet, bitter ache tightened in my chest. Lauren was ambitious—so ambitious that every time I brought up marriage, she found a way to slip out of the conversation. "Things are just too crazy at the firm right now, Luke," she’d say, smoothing down the lapel of my jacket with that gentle, reasonable smile. "Let’s get the company through this funding round first. Career comes first." She was also generous to a fault. So generous that when her ex-boyfriend moved back to the States, she enveloped him in a cocoon of unreserved devotion. "I broke his heart when I left for grad school," she’d explained, her voice heavy with an old, lingering guilt. "He ended up moving overseas all by himself, and he had a miserable few years out there. I owe him, Luke. I need to make it up to him." She needed to make it up to him, so the moment she heard he was couch-surfing and looking for a place in Chicago, she offered him our spare room. Travis doesn't really have family left here, she’d told me. Finding an apartment takes time, and our guest room is just sitting empty. It’s temporary, just a landing pad. She needed to make it up to him, so the afternoon I was discharged from the hospital after a three-day bout of acute bronchitis, she asked me to stand over a hot stove and make the bourbon-glazed short ribs he loved. Travis told me he missed your cooking more than anything while he was in London, she’d said, pressing a kiss to my temple. Nobody makes them like you do. Just a small batch for dinner? She needed to make it up to him, which was why it was nearly one in the morning, and she was still curled up on the sectional downstairs, watching the playoffs with him. I lay in the dark of our master bedroom, staring at the ceiling, list

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