A Restless Heart

(Chapter 23)

Chapter 24

Noise. So much noise. Rain glistened streets looming up beneath his feet and a pounding in his heart that can’t outpace his loss. He’s losing her, he’s going to lose her, and it’s all his fault. Owen staggers down the street swigging from a bottle of whatever it was he got in the bar he just passed, not tasting a drop of it in his struggle to get it down.

She’s going to Chicago. She’s going without him. All these years they’ve been together and th...