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Brynne didn’t even know about this suite She would have figured it out in two seconds flat and hatedher into it I rubbed my chest and tried to still the ache that burned I turned on the shower and got undressed

As the hot water poured over ainst the tile and faced exactly where I was You’re not with her! You , and she doesn’t want you now

My Brynne had left me for the second time The first tiht because she was terrorized by a bad dream This ti back I could see it in her face and it wasn’t fear that made her leave It was utter devastation at the betrayal, to find I had kept the truth froh and lost

The urge to pull her back and reat I punched the wall and likely fractured so her She told ain

I turned off the shower and stepped out, the desolate sounds of dripping water draining away made my chest hurt worse from the hollowness I pulled down a plush towel and shoved e in the mirror as my face was revealed Naked, wet, and miserable Alone I realized another truth as I stared attiive her a day or two, but never was irrefutably out of the question

The fact that she still needed protection froed either I couldn’t allow anything to happen to the woman I love Never

I s even me in my sorry state; for I had just found a perfect exae for the word never

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Day two ofaround and doing things but nothing felt right How long would I be like this? Should I call her? If I thought about my situation too much, dread started to creep in so I left it alone I left her alone The empty space inside o to her She needed so too fast and too hard with her And being an utter selfish prick

I parked on the street next to the house where I’d grown up The lawn very tidy, the gate straight and the shrubbery clipped as it had always been Dad would never leave here Not the hoave the ter and this here he would die some day

I picked up the cold beer off the seat and went in through the gate A black cat dashed ahead of rown either A teenage cat I suppose It sat down right in front of the door and turned and looked atfor me to hurry up my too-slow arse and let hiotten a cat?

I rang the bell and then opened the door and stuck my head in "Dad?" The cat slithered into the house faster than the speed of light and all I could do was stare "You have a cat now?" I called out and went into the kitchen I put the beer in the fridge and flopped on the couch