Chapter 26
Vanni ignored the ringing of the phone as he always did. His head told him to answer it; it might be important. But he couldn’t. It was all he could do to get up each morning to go to work. Even though he knew that no one there was aware of what had happened, he still thought the looks his coworkers sent him held pity. Imagination, yes he knew that but it didn’t dispel the feeling of being pitied, something he couldn’t handle.
Actually, he couldn’t handle anything. In his mind he knew this was wrong. He knew he had locked himself away in the house like a recluse, but leaving it except when he absolutely had to meant walking away from the man he loved.
Now he sat and stared at the four walls of the living room and remembered the laughter they’d shared when, at his insistence,
