Doris laid in her old bed and felt a strange piece of her missing. She expected to feel as if she was right where she belonged, as if she was home—but she didn’t feel that way at all. The bed was stiff under her back and she might as well have been laying in the dirt with how it made her feel. She rolled on her side and saw nothing but the bare walls and it hit her then—

She missed William.

The thoughts weren’t welcome and she wanted to banish them from her mind, but they just kept sneaking back in. She missed his warmth and the safeness she...