Maddie isn’t home when I get back from work, and she still isn’t here when I’m ready for bed. I consider her last words to me, hearing them clatter around in my head. I don’t know how to be the man she needs right now. She thinks my fussing means I don’t trust her. How the hell do I explain to her that I have nothing else to offer beyond my organizational skills?
Unable to sit still, I stand at the counter with my laptop, finishing up my proposal for Clayton Monroe and Allegheny Power. As I’m studying his latest email to me, I see a notification that he’s online. It’s very late. Well, for me it’s late. I’m supposed to run with my brothers before work tomorrow and then I have to drive to the suburbs for dinner with my mother.
My phone rings. “Clayton?”
“Liam! Good. Was worried the pho
