Chapter Twenty-One
Warner
Only one month had passed since she’d left, yet it felt as if I’d already spent an eternity without her. I hadn’t called her, nor had she called me. We had to let it die out completely, with no hope of resuscitation.
My brother Cohen walked past my open office door. He stopped and looked in at me. “Hey, bro. Some of the other guys and I are heading out to this new club on the southside. You should come.”
“Nah.” I didn’t feel like a night out.
“Why?” he asked as he came into my office, closing the door behind him. “Because you don’t look busy. You don’t look like you’ve got anything going on at all. As a matter of fact, when I saw you, you were just staring off into space. So stop sulking over that girl and come out. Join the living, bro.”
“It’s just that I k
