Zach
The sunrays filtered through the trees as I followed my father and grandfather down the narrow path toward the boathouse. Their voices drifted back to me, something about replacing the dock's weathered boards before winter but I heard them as if through water, distant and distorted.
My hands were steady as I helped load tools into the rowboat. My voice was steady when I answered their questions. But inside, I was screaming.
I hadn't realized until this moment that I hadn't just lost my marriage, but along with it, I had lost so much else, including my child. I was so lost in my own world that I was completely unaware. After learning this, the pain seized me, and it was suffocating me now.
I didn't know how Ashley endured all of that alone. I was to blame. I should have been with h
