Chapter 11
Clark saved the draft of his e-mail and clicked out. He wasn’t concentrating anyway. He sighed and leaned back in his chair.
Three weeks had passed since he cut Thomas out of his life. Three weeks of unending misery. He couldn’t shake the idea he’d let Aaron win again.
He should have talked to Thomas. Maybe Thomas didn’t know anything about what happened with Aaron. Clark hadn’t told him. It could have just been a coincidence that Thomas had sent his résumé there. The fact Thomas wanted to leave his firm stung anyway, but he could get over that.
He picked up his handset and dialed Thomas’s home phone. After four rings, his answering machine picked up. It was just a pre-recorded computerized voice, but at the end instead of the beep, the machine cut off with the voice saying,
