Zoe POV

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I didn't expect any of that.

That's what I keep coming back to, sitting here with his arms still around me and the fire burning low and the night quietly doing whatever night does when nobody's paying attention to it. I didn't expect it. Somewhere along the way I had quietly adjusted my expectations of Noah Carter downward in that particular department — not his capacity for action, not his ability to show up when it counted, but this. The fine-grained, ...