Sadie.
I’d just come from a run. Sleep had been a distant thought, elusive and half-formed, slipping from my grasp every time I closed my eyes. My mind had been too full of everything and nothing. When day came, and I still couldn’t get any sleep, I decided to go for a run to clear my head before I started my day.
Aspen wasn’t in the room when I got back, and by the time on my phone, she had probably already had breakfast and was either with Martha or playing.
I padded to the bathroom, needing something to wash away the ache pressing against my chest. I turned the shower on hot and stepped under the stream, pressing my back against the cold tile as the water poured down my body. I stood there for what felt like forever, trying to sort through everything that had unraveled in the past tw
