Chapter 24 Twenty Four

• The morning sunlight seeped through the blinds of my study, spilling across my desk where I’d eventually fallen asleep. I blinked a few times, disoriented, before sitting up and rubbing the stiffness from my neck.
• Tessa.
• She’d locked herself away in the bedroom after insisting she needed space. I’d respected her wishes, even though it gnawed at me. She was my wife and seeing her unravel like that without being able to do anything felt like a knife in my chest.