But the expiration date was yesterday.

She’d used it. Twice. It had saved them.

She crept closer. He wasn’t on the phone. He was talking to the empty yard, clutching a second pass—this one dog-eared, with the number HP-0001.

The design was absurdly official: a faded watermark of their wedding rings, a serial number (HP-0421), and the terms printed in crisp Helvetica:

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