Chapter 14 Arek The week had tried to kill me with the slow, grinding accumulation of need after need after need until I felt like a sponge that someone kept wringing out and dipping back into the water. Saturday morning, I woke up with a deep tiredness, the kind...

Chapter 13 Mac   Arek left around noon. I walked him to his car the way I always did, and he looked at me with those green eyes that were so warm and kind, and I nodded because I didn't have words for what he'd given me that morning. Then he drove down the...