CHAPTER 14
Scott did his best to engage in the conversation around Carl and Sandy’s table, but his mind kept snapping back to Susannah, reminding him of the magnetic pull of a compass momentarily shaken off balance. Like the victim of some animistic curse, he was destined to relive that last phone call of theirs with perfect clarity.
“We can never be together.” Five words. So final. Spoken with such tenderness, a tenderness that made the truth of her statement even harder to endure.
Never be together ...
He tried to change her mind. “Don’t say that. Give yourself time to grieve. Let me walk through the mourning with you.”
“I can’t,” she whispered, as if her soul was terrified of him, afraid of the attraction they’d felt for one another from so early on in their relationship. What was
