What Happened to the Bennetts

by Lisa Scottoline

My heart wrenched so deeply that I lost my breath. It felt like a shock wave blasting me in the chest. The world blurred, fuzzy and far away. The doctor, the waiting room, the TV.

A faint reddish line from an oxygen mask encircled her mouth, where only hours before had been a blue mouth guard.

I knew that everyone grieved differently, but somehow I hadn’t expected to grieve so differently from them.

Lucinda lifted an eyebrow, and I translated disapproval, since my wife’s eyebrows contain our marital vocabulary.

Can you imagine? Your best friend and her family vanish off the face of the earth?

I was just a suburban dad who believed in the truth. I was about to see if that mattered anymore.

‘Decide what you want and do what gets it.’ ” Dom nodded. “Nothing else matters. No rules, no laws. Not what you should want. Not being right. Not your pride.”