Zeke
I can’t bring myself to leave.
Even after Miss Penny’s attempt to comfort me, I can’t seem to find the strength in me to let Julia go. No matter how final her goodbye was, I just can’t abandon her, not when Amos’s sights are still set so squarely upon her.
I linger in the hallway until the shadows blossom out into darkness. Nobody living has ventured inside for hours, and with a heavy heart, I start to wonder if Julia really has taken my advice and fled.
My aggrieved thoughts drive me toward the living room where I turn on the lights in order to study the photographs of Julia and Jake that line the decorative mantelpiece. She looks happy in some of the earlier ones, but that spark of joy seems to fade in each picture as I move chronologically past the frames.
How I wish I could g
