When the conversation lapsed she reached for the umbrella and found Jonah’s fingers close around hers. He did not let go right away, as if to confirm that the grip was real and not just something rain had conjured. It was small and human and oddly consequential.
On an afternoon that smelled of magnolia and distant thunder, Holly found an envelope on her doormat. Inside was a single postcard from Jonah: a photograph of a bridge in a city she had never visited, rain caught in the air like scattered glass, and one line in his handwriting: holly wetlove