Chapter 30
Sarah Gardner“I think we need to take a break,” Sarah told Caleb after the kids were all in bed. She’d been thinking about it for a while now. It was as if all the parts of her had been taken and allocated, that she had none to spare for him.
Caleb continued washing the dishes.
“Did you hear me?” she asked softly.
Sarah watched as he turned the tap off, dried his hands on the kitchen towel, and turned to face her. “Yeah, I heard you,” he said.
Her heart banged against her chest. “I’m sorry,” she said, a feeble attempt at easing the blow.
“Are you?” Caleb made no attempt to hide what he was feeling. It looked to Sarah as if he’d been kicked in the stomach. She’d put too much on him; she’d been unfair to him. Sarah wanted him to yell at her. To tell her that she was making a
