Kiss the Past Goodbye (Thoughts of her consume their mind...)/Tangled up series
Bar. Whiskey. Misery. Stephen. It’s the same every time. The same setting, the same guilt and self-pity. The same pointless questions Stephen thinks he knows the answers to though would never say out loud.
“Do you think she’s dead?”
No, she’s Helen.
“Did I push her into leaving? Did… I not love her enough?”
You loved your work more.
“Was I such a bad husband?”
No, you were you.
“Did she not love me anymore?”
She did, we both did, do, always.
“Did she have someone else?”
Yes…
“Come on, old man,” Stephen interrupts the thought. “Let’s get you home.”