Chapter Thirty
Charlie
Later that evening, I sank into my desk chair and reached up to unwind my hair. As my hair fell loose around my shoulders, Jesse danced through my mind. He’d pretty much taken up a full-time parking space in there. Running into him this morning had been painful. I had so desperately wanted to say more than I did. Yet, I felt like I was still stumbling along, just barely juggling all the balls I needed to keep my life running.
Coward, that rather assertive voice whispered in the back of my mind.
Tossing the elastic for my hair on my desk, I stood and walked to the windows to look outside. This was one of my late nights, so it was going on seven o’clock. The sun was just now starting to slide down the horizon. The mountains were silhouetted against sky, the stark l
