Chapter 44

• Owen had been staring at a blank page for more hours then he wanted to count. His characters had abandoned him. They had nothing to say and refused to do anything to help him. He closed the Word document and sat and looked at the keyboard. He wanted to call her, but he didn’t know what to say. He hadn’t changed his mind, that much he knew, but he couldn’t get past wanting to talk to her. He toyed with the idea of sending her an e-mail, but he didn’t know how to start or what to say, much less how to finish.
• With a sigh he closed the laptop and walked over to look out the window. He wasn’t even looking out the window, he realized, just vaguely facing the glass but not seeing. He glanced over at the phone again. What could he say that would stop her pain, and his pain? Nothing that wouldn’t be a lie.
• When the phone in his pocket buzzed, he literally jumped six inches. Shit! He opened it and stared at the words for several minutes before he moved again.