Chapter 10As the train rolled away from Pacific Central station, I leaned my forehead to the window, looking through the blue of my eyes in the glass reflection, watching the platform pass by. I’d bought a window seat, and so far, no one had claimed the seat next to mine, so I had the compartment to myself. The even thudding of the train rolling over the rails vaguely comforted me, and I knew I’d made the right decision to ride a cross-country train, instead of flying back to Montreal.
I needed these next six days of solitude. I’d have time to think. To replay every moment I’d spent with Davie, in that room, which hadn’t really been a room, but a whole world we’d created between us in those four days and nights. Those days were inside me now, every second of them. Trapped in my heart, bur
