Crossing the line
I needed to hit something, move, sweat until the noise in my head broke apart.
Tyler was already there, taping his wrists. He looked up when I entered, then sighed. “You look like hell.”
“Thanks.”
He nodded toward the heavy bag. “You wanna talk about it or punch it?”
“Both,” I said.
He grinned faintly. “Then start swinging.”
I did. Hit after hit, the leather groaned, my knuckles stung, but none of it helped. Not really.
After a while, Tyler said quietly, “You can’t fix this one by bleeding it out, man.”