Chapter 9For three days Miguel continued to send emails begging for forgiveness. But there was never any response. He just couldn’t accept that Shamus wouldn’t answer. The messages continued, becoming more and more frantic, until finally Miguel sat down at his laptop to send one more and found he didn’t know what else to say. It was then that it hit him.
Shamus wasn’t coming back.
He sat staring at his computer screen, the cold reality gradually sinking in, the numbness overtaking him. Then the tears started.
He tried to resist at first, then finally gave in to the sense of loss that was overtaking him. For twenty minutes the tears continued, and every time Miguel tried to regain control, they started again. At no time in his life had he ever experienced such grief. And this could have
