All Chapters of THE GOODBYE HE MISSED : Chapter 21 - Chapter 30

Ethan asked if they could play chess. Adrian hadn't played chess in years. He used to play with Ethan every Sunday before Sundays stopped being theirs. He found the board in the hall closet, behind a stack of Ethan's old board games and a box of winter things that hadn't been touched since last se

The moment Sophia confirmed she was being investigated, she gave herself forty-eight hours to feel afraid. After that, she got to work. She sat in her car in the parking structure on Michigan Avenue with the engine off and her personal phone in her lap and she gave the fear its full measure. She di

Adrian had rehearsed what he was going to say to Olivia for three days. The moment she opened her apartment door and started crying, he forgot every word of it. He had not told her he was coming. He had driven directly from dropping Ethan at his cardiology follow-up — where Sophia had handled the

Sophia had two phones, two email addresses, and for the past eight years, two lives. Today, for the first time, the two lives were going to be in the same room at the same time. She moved through the morning routine with the practiced ease of someone who had been managing this split for long enoug

Davis had given Olivia a thread. By midnight she had pulled it all the way to the end, and what she found there made her sit very still in her kitchen for a very long time. She had been at the table since six. Her coffee had gone cold twice. The papers Davis had delivered that afternoon — printed,