That was the other thing. He and Casey had been a two-person team for eleven years. Dad, Wyatt, Coach, Mateo, Angie, and Todd—they were family, important to him and Casey and the life they’d built. But they relied on one another to the utmost degree, shared everything with each other. She was always somewhere in his thoughts, and whenever anything happened, be it a world event or some trivial interaction at work, she was the first person he talked to about it. He wanted her opinion on everything, even though he could guess what it was before he asked. And the beauty of it all was he knew she’d
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