Sixteen
Everything in Owen screamed at him to follow her, but he couldn’t move, paralyzed by the sharp, stabbing pain in his chest. If he hadn’t felt it once before, he might’ve thought he was having a heart attack, but he knew it was only his heart splintering again.
He had tried to discredit his fears about Hope and Dan, but the harder he’d tried, the more tightly they had constricted him and the deeper those doubts had reached, dragging up memories that terrified him.
Hope’s words made sense, and somewhere in a far corner of his mind that the shadows couldn’t reach, he understood that a woman like her never would’ve resorted to divorce unless there was no alternative left. But, trapped in the t****l of his memories, he was unable to forget that moment in the ice cream parlor when he’
