Chapter 38: Distress Signal

Four missed calls from Beth. Each about fifteen minutes apart.

Sean scowls at his phone and turns it over on the armrest of his couch. It’s not her heat— that just finished, a little over a week ago. She doesn’t ever call him for anything else, and usually not even for that anymore. She’s more of a texting person.

The show on his TV barely holds his attention, but he makes a valiant effort to stay focused on it. Whatever this thing with Beth is, she’ll probably find help elsewhere. Maybe from Josh. Or that other friend of hers she always talks about. Pat? Payne? Whatever.

Maybe she’s calling to break it off indefinitely. In which case, she can damn well drive over here and say it to his face. He’s not going to settle for some cowardly, impersonal phone conversation; he wants to see her face when she tells him it’s over.