They Announced the Sale of “Our” Beach House at My Birthday — Then I Put the Agent on Speaker and Revealed Who Actually Owned Everything

“I’ve missed you too,” I said, and meant it.

We ordered and sat by the window and let the silence between us be what it was for a moment — everything that had happened and everything unsaid.

“We were wrong,” she said finally, wrapping both hands around her cup. “About the beach house. About Connor’s restaurant. About thinking we could still just decide continue reading …