Chapter 52
I clear my throat. The confidence Randy shared was very private. So I’m not the one to tell you about that. He needs to do that. As for the hugging . . .” I feel a lump in my throat remembering Zach. “Randy hugged me because I’d just learned that someone I cared about had died.”
I realize I’m grieving. This hits me so fast, tears well up in my eyes. I bite my lip. It seems ridiculous to cry over the death of someone I hardly knew. Yet, here I am stifling tears over a dead acquaintance.
Denise’s look softens. “I’m really sorry. Was he a relative?”
“No. He was just, an old guy . . .” My throat constricts, so the last words come out with a squeak.
I feel so stupid. Like a baby. I don’t want to cry and embarrass myself even more. This whole day has been one disaster after anoth
