Ch 6 Losing It
Beta'ed by the lovely Jamie!
I stared at him, blankly, then started to laugh. "Bill's not home," came my strangled voice. He looked at me oddly as I started to laugh, a strange, choking laugh. "Do you know when he might be back?" he asked cautiously, as my laughs turned to barking coughs. He clearly thought I was insane, and he was right. I had gone over the edge. My laughs turned to sobs as I choked out, still huddled in the corner, "Never. He's never coming back." "What?" was the startled reply. I gazed up and up at the blond blur, made even more blurry by my tears and finally said the words I had avoided for months. "Bill's dead. He's never coming back, ever. He's dead." Knees bent and hips folded inward as the long body before me came down to my level. Blue eyes stared at me compassionately, intensely. "Oh, sugarbabe. I'm so sorry."