Chapter Fourteen
You ask me what happened after you left
Maximus spoke in a hushed voice while I sat back on one of the sofas in his living room. I spent two long years dealing with the pain. Maybe for the first time in my life, I really suffered a hurt that wouldnt go away with a slapdash bandage and bit of philosophical rationalization. You dug in deep there, Chelsea, where no one else has gone
I could have killed Denny, but it seemed the authorities deprived me of that opportunity, a good thing too, or I would have wound up sitting beside him in a cell rather than enjoy the life I have now.
But there is a quirky poetry to life, that shows us that from ashes of even the most passionate grief enormous accomplishments can arise. Ive built all this; maybe I would have done the s
