The Weight of Goodbye

Sloane kept silent while Tobias’s voice rose at the other end. “Ms. Callahan, if Mr. Vancroft will not go to the hospital now, his fingers may set wrong. Even if they heal, he could lose his hand.”

After a long pause, she asked, “Where is he?”

“Still in the apartment you once shared,” Tobias answered. Without another word, Sloane ended the call.

Her car swallowed the distance to the apartment whil