The Blank Line

~BECKETT~

The house felt wrong without her in it.

Two days, and I had started noticing absences I had no right to miss.

The kitchen stayed too clean. The upstairs hallway no longer had the faint trail of her perfume.

There was no mug left in the sink, no custom jersey thrown over a chair to bother me, no pointed little comments from the doorway to get under my skin.

The mansion had always been lar