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Chapter 7

I watched him go with mixed feelings. My mind reeling from our conversation, I ended up with a Nautilus and stashed it in the back of my truck. As I drove home, I thought to myself that I was well and truly free of him now. Any feelings that had lingered on Noah’s behalf were best left behind. Which left me trying to figure out how to mend things with Trenton, who wanted nothing to do with me.

I had gone for many years either pushing people away, alienating the ones I loved, or focusing on work at the expense of everything else. I thought I’d improved, but if I wasn’t careful, I would become that person again. How to stop that from happening, I didn’t know.

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