Chapter 18
Kim tore down the road in a cloud of dust. She made sure she was well out of sight before she pulled over, let her head fall onto the steering wheel. She could feel the pulse in the tips of her fingers, her heart louder than usual. Her head spinning.
Was she Jake’s problem? Kids reflected their parents – everybody knew that. What sort of a mirror was she for Jake? Clinging to yesterday, unable to let go of a partner who was gone. Unable to even let go of his dead dog.
If the truth be known, Connor was slipping away from her, in spite of her best efforts to hold him. When she reached back as before, searching for that place where he still lived, he felt less and less real. And when she seized onto a memory, sometimes she wasn’t sure if it was true anymore or some sort of compo
