Page 16 of Say Something
I blew out a breath. “I’m so sorry, Michael. I should have been here for you.”
“Yeah,” he nodded. “You should have. And you should have let us be there for you, too.”
“You’re right,” I nodded. We stood in silence for a few minutes, lost in our own thoughts…in our own losses…before I finally broke the silence. “How about we do something tonight, just me and you?” I asked, hopeful he’d say yes.
“What do you have in mind?” he asked cautiously.
“I think having a few drinks with my baby bro might be just what Dr. Todd ordered…for both of us.”
“Dr. Todd?”
“My shrink.”
His eyes widened briefly at that little factoid, then he nodded. “Yeah, I think drinks sound good.”
“Are you still on Cedar?” I asked softly, not wanting to upset him if he’d moved away from the home he and Kara had created.
“Yeah…I couldn’t bring myself to leave.”
In case she came back.He didn’t have to say it, I knew. It’s the same reason I stayed in the townhouse months after Danny had moved out. After we separated and eventually divorced. I think some part of me hoped he might come back and wanted him to be able to find me if he did. He never came back, though. And, apparently, neither did Kara.
“Text me your address. I’ll meet you at your place and we’ll walk together to The Bar.” Yes…The Bar. We lived inthattown. The Bar and The Diner. That’s where it ended, though. The rest of the establishments in our small town were named after their founders or Oak River itself. “You got a couch your big sister can crash on after she drinks too much?” I asked, picking up my purse off the hood and walking around to the driver’s side of my car.
Michael grabbed the clipboard before he tucked his large frame into the passenger seat. “I’ll do you one better,” he said as we buckled up. “I’ve got a guest bedroom. You can sleep on a bed.”
“Sounds perfect.” I said with a smile, happy the tension that was between us finally dissolved.
