They met in the strangest of seasons. Chris had just come home from months offshore, with fourteen days of quarantine standing between him and the world — and that is when Nara found her way into his days. The moment the doors opened, he rented Harlow Ranch in the hills, once home to Carabao, Thailand's country music legend, lit a fire, and invited her to a barbecue with him and Sugar — alongside a bottle of the Argentinian Malbec she'd once said she loved.

That evening, over steak from the flames, Chris poured his first drink in three years.