Chapter 22Josh left the gym and sat in the parking lot on his bike. He almost went back in but thought better of it. Still, he waited. Steve might come out.
No sign of him. Before he’d left the building himself, he looked back at the locker room. Steve hadn’t followed him through the door, to Josh’s surprise. It was the kind of crazy thing that Steve might do, but he didn’t.
Which was worse, leaving Steve behind or facing him? Josh couldn’t stay there. He turned the ignition. The vibration soothed him.
On the way through the lot, his chest got heavy, and he slumped on the bike. He wanted to go back and talk it out, but he couldn’t. Under those circumstances, there was no way. Maybe Steve wasn’t interested in talking. Maybe this was it, over already.
Turning to the street, he didn’t loo
