Shannon woke in the beach house alone. Of course, she’d eaten two sandwiches in the beach house alone. And cried in the beach house alone. And apparently, fallen asleep at some point in the beach house. Alone.
Her face felt like someone had dipped it in saltwater and stretched it out to dry. She was exhausted even though she’d just woken up.
She had no meetings and nowhere to be that day, so she stayed in bed, her mind reviewing the conversation where she’d become single again.
Why do you think that?
Why do you think that?Jeremiah had asked her that twice, and both times had lit a fire under her. It sounded so much like something Doctor Finlayson would ask her—had asked her—that Shannon couldn’t really see reason in the moment.
hadShe could now, and she admitted that it was possible t
