Chapter 47: Sebastian

I stand there. The driver opens her door. She gets in. She doesn’t look back — not once, not even a glance in the window. The car pulls away and the gate closes behind it and I’m standing on my father’s front steps in the dark still holding her divorce papers like an idiot.

Then I walk to my car, get in and drive.

The papers went on the passenger seat. I didn’t look at them. I turned the radio off after thirty seconds because I couldn’t stand the noise and drove the rest of the way in silenc