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The One Who Got Away

Declan Mercer walked back into Harborview on the same night you lit the anniversary candles, and the universe clearly has no sense of timing. You built this restaurant, this marriage, this life — brick by careful brick — after he left without a word five years ago. Now his name is on a reservation slip in your hostess's hand, and a folded note is sitting on your desk with your first name written in handwriting you never forgot. The candles in the dining room are still burning. So is something you were certain you had extinguished.