that he’d still show up whenever I needed him.
I hoped I could return the favor some day.
“You alright?” Carter asked. “And I don’t mean right now. I mean with…everything.”
“You mean Liz,” I said.
“Yeah. I do.”
I didn’t know if I’d ever be alright with her being gone. There was still a void, an emptiness that felt as if it would always be staring me in the face. I didn’t know how to remove that and I wasn’t sure that I wanted to. But I couldn’t run from it forever. It was going to change. The only thing I could do was face it and see what happened.
So as the sun disappeared behind us in the rearview mirror and I prepared for the long drive home, back to San Diego, to face whatever was waiting, I gave him the only answer I could think of.
“We’ll see,” I said.
