PART 3   I stared at the hospital bracelet in the lunchbox until the letters of my own name blurred.

know she had a storage unit.”

“She didn’t want Diane to know.”

That made me laugh bitterly through my tears.

“She knew Diane well.”

Walter smiled faintly.

“She knew everyone.”

We went that afternoon.

I almost told him not to come.

Part of me still wanted distance.

But another part of me knew that if I waited, I might lose courage.

So Walter climbed into my rental continue reading …