Chapter 82. Goodbye, Robert

ROBERT

"Robert, stop sending me flowers! Stop sending apology notes! They won't change anything, so stop. Stop it!" Renee's voice came through from the other end of the phone the moment I pressed the answer button and held the phone to my ear. 

I shivered slightly. Her call had arrived just as I was wallowing in self-pity, with a bottle of whiskey in hand and a plate of uneaten food staring blankly at me. 

I’d been ready to drown myself in a sea of sadness when this phone call interrupted my lonely reverie. 

Like always, her voice pulled me out from under the water where my problems had taken hold, forcing me into a state of self-consciousness I hadn't felt in days. 

Renee was my lifeline. A ray of sunshine amid a stormy sky. She made me want to be more. To be better. She was my rock, the one thing that kept me grounded in the midst of this constant chaos.

Ever since she’d come into my life, everything had changed.