Timing was everything. If Margo had gotten to the city a few weeks earlier, she would have found Eliot in a very different state. But given how on-the-rocks things had been between them when he'd dropped in here? He was more than ready to seize the moment and push the reset button on all of it.

"Among other places," he half-shrugged. The question of where to start was still hovering, though at the same time, the conversation was already settling into a comfortable flow. If they just went with it, they'd find their way.

"Trust me, we don't even have it the worst. There's a guy here in his twenties who spent time being roommates with his grown-up son."