Chapter 164 The Window

• Riley's POV
• The call with David lasted nineteen minutes, and I spent most of the time looking at the wall. I had written three drafts of a letter first — each one a different version of myself trying to figure out how much to give and how much to protect.
• In the end I put all three in the recycling folder and called him instead, because I had learned the hard way that the things I wrote down tended to become the things I hid behind. I didn't want that.