Chapter 106

• EVELYN
• I used to think I’d already lived through the most painful days of my life.
• That nothing like absolutely nothing could ever eclipse the kind of sorrow that came with losing Mike and Dad. That kind of grief wraps itself around your ribs, gnaws through your lungs, and makes it hard to breathe for weeks. It carves out parts of you and leaves cold echoes in their place. For the longest time, I believed that was the highest threshold of pain I could ever endure.