Chapter 86 Every Cell Of My Being

• But when Yuren was around… the noise paused.
• Somehow, with his sharp grin and dry humor, his terrible karaoke impersonations when we closed late, his dramatic sighs whenever I forgot my gloves, he kept me afloat. He didn’t ask about the pain in my eyes or the way my hands sometimes trembled when a name slipped from a customer’s mouth. He knew, and he didn’t press. He just gave me space, and in that space, I could breathe.
• But he’d been gone for two days now.