Koala Reads

"That afternoon Su Yang didn’t speak to Xu Lize again. He lay in the bedroom receiving an IV; she camped out in the living room working for hours until the sun slipped below the horizon."

"She knew she’d been overreacting — pregnancy hormones made everything sharper, every casual remark feel like a blade — but she let herself blame the pregnancy. The thought of losing Xu Lize was a terror that had nothing to do with money. Even without him, even as a single mother, she could provide for herself and the baby. What scared her was the emptiness: loving someone and knowing they might never be able to stay. That lack, that quiet absence, was what made her panic."

"After dinner she dawdled in the living room for a long time before finally going back to the bedroom. He’d been sitting against the headboard with his eyes closed; the sound of her coming in made him open them slowly."