At my graduation dinner, Dad slid my acceptance letter back across the table and said I would not be attending the seven-year BS/MD program I had earned a place in. – Welcome

for nearly two hours.

When he left, he carried a box.

She thought it was strange.

But like me, she blamed grief.

Then, three days before I came home with Nora, Eleanor saw something that frightened her.

At roughly two in the morning, Marcus parked across from my house.

He didn’t get out.

He simply sat inside his car.

Watching.

For a long time.

Eleanor couldn’t continue reading …