Leo looked at the pancakes. The butter melting into golden pools. The syrup spreading like slow amber. The comfort of it—the violent, beautiful, heartbreaking comfort of a country kitchen while his mother’s heart was failing a hundred miles south.
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Before what, he didn’t say. The “before” in this family was a loaded gun. Before the divorce. Before the city swallowed her. Before she stopped laughing. Leo looked at the pancakes