All Chapters of THE GOODBYE HE MISSED : Chapter 151 - Chapter 160

She had learned something about grief in the weeks after Ethan: it did not stop time. She had expected it to. Instead the days kept arriving — relentlessly, punctually, with their full weight of hours — and she had to fill them, because Noah was coming and Noah needed her functional and so she was.

He drove to Portland in January and sat in a parking garage two miles from the address he had found himself, using resources he had and instincts he had spent a career developing, and he sat there for four hours and then drove back to Chicago without getting out of the car. He told himself this was

She had planned for every contingency. What she had not planned for was that labour would move faster than projected and the last forty minutes would be just her and the OHSU team and the Portland rain on the window, which turned out to be exactly enough. The contractions had started at one in the

Six months after Ethan, he had done the following things: fifty-two therapy sessions, four thousand kilometres of running, read nineteen books, visited the grave twenty-four times, not called Olivia once, not driven to Portland again, and handed operational management of Kane Group to his deputy. He

The first year was the hardest and also, in ways she had not expected, the most clarifying of her life. She had spent ten years being the woman who waited. In the year after Ethan, she became something that was not waiting. Something with direction. Noah at three months had opinions. She could n