From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Date: February 14, 2025
Subject: Re: Happy Valentine’s Day That you have any endorphins left right now is a shock, woman.
From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Date: February 14, 2025
Subject: Re: Happy Valentine’s Day Right? Kristen was no fool. You give good dick.
Come back to bed.
Epilogue
2026
From: [email protected] To: [email protected]
Date: February 14, 2026
Subject: What did you say . . .
. . . when I asked you to marry me exactly at midnight?
From: [email protected] To: [email protected]
Date: February 14, 2026
Subject: Re: What did you say . . .
You’ll never forget what I said because I think you are still deaf from how loud I screamed YES into your ear.
Are we still going to be emailing each other from the same couch on Valentine’s Day in fifty years?
From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Date: February 14, 2026
Subject: Re: What did you say . . .
Without question.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
This is the first time we’ve ever attempted a short story, and holy soup dumplings, did we love the experience! Shout-out to our agent, Holly Root, for knowing this would be the most delightful prompt to send us, and to our Amazon editor, Maria Gomez, for including us and for loving Callum and Terra as much as we do! Maria Gomez and Lindsey Faber sprinkled love and edits in perfect balance in the manuscript, and Jen Prokop has the freelance editorial eyes we cannot live without. So much love to readers, librarians, Bookstagrammers, BookTokkers, and every reviewer out there. We get to do this because you support us, and not a day goes by where we aren’t deeply, deeply grateful.
xo
Lo & C