At the seam of open and sky

Callie Elsher has made a career out of being fine. Reyes Devlin has made one out of saying very little. Between them: one ten-year-old who is nobody's fool, a house full of things nobody has said, and approximately one year of two people circling something enormous and calling it nothing. They are both fluent in leaving. They are both, quietly, terrifyingly, learning something else.
But love doesn't announce itself in this story. It just keeps showing up. It makes the coffee. It reads the same chapter four times. It writes four words on the inside cover of a notebook and hopes that's enough.