Chapter 44

AARON

I sink into one of the chairs and try to process everything.

Leah. Missing.

Leah. Dying.

It just doesn’t make sense.

She’s young. A force of life so bright at times I found it hard to be around her. I can’t imagine her not in this world. I can’t imagine that she’s si ck or hurting.

Or that she’s been suffering for a long time and I never noticed.

My chest aches and I rub at the center of it.

“I still have to make rounds,” Adam says. “And there is a chance that if Leah left, that maybe she doesn’t want to be found. She might be si ck of all of us.”

I nod.

like it, but it

should’ve done so many things

loved her.

her at arm’s length. All the times she tried to make our marriage a real one. Not just in bed, but by being a

the kitchen and

for me in the library, reading one of her books,

not back down, no matter how many

now she’s

Dying???

can’t lose her. I can’t let

pain seizes my body. It’s not physical so much as a

I can scent her. That light fragrant smell of her hair that’s

reenters the hospital

imagine what he

smooshed flowers and breathing

The Novel will be updated daily. Come back and continue reading tomorrow, everyone!

Comments ()

0/255