Chapter 15
One week agoLeo never had a chance to say goodbye to Joyce Evans-Robinson. She said goodbye to her father in the middle of the night, and all evidence of either of them vanished before Leo’s next visit. The sadness of not seeing his deathwatch friend hurt: a sharp contrast to the dull ache of sorrow he lived with every moment.
That room surely had new occupant in such a well-regarded facility, but Leo never bothered finding out. He simply passed by the door that was always closed now, just like Maria’s. He took care never to look in any of the narrow windows in those anonymous doors.
A wide black fabric belt embroidered with red and blue flowers covered the window in Maria’s, more for Leo's continually breaking heart than for his wife. By the time she'd transferred to this wa
