Chapter 23Oscar picked up his phone from the coffee table. He checked the texts and calls, none from Karen, though he’d reached out to her three times now in the last few days. He figured she needed some space to deal with her bad news.
Nothing from Radhi either, Oscar hadn’t heard from him since the incident. Reaching out once the day after, Oscar judged that as enough. Trying too hard wouldn’t help. After Radhi stormed away, Oscar couldn’t say anything without sounding desperate.
Reading again the text he’d written to Radhi, it sounded pathetic to Oscar. He shouldn’t have sent it. So melodramatic, that thing about his blood, it wasn’t like him. Out of kilter ever since he’d met Radhi, Oscar missed him terribly. The last three days crept by empty in this lonely house on the edge of town
