Elina pressed a kiss to the top of her head. “I think,” she said slowly, “that we are the most real thing I have ever known.”
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Loving Olivia was not a wildfire. It was a hearth. It was the kind of warmth that Elina built her evenings around. She learned Olivia’s habits: the way she hummed when she was happy, the specific curl of her hair after rain, the fact that she always saved the last bite of cake “just in case someone else wanted it.” In return, Olivia learned Elina’s fears—the way she needed reassurance folded into the ordinary moments, a hand on her back while she washed dishes, a text that said thinking of you for no reason at all. Elina pressed a kiss to the top of her head