Chapter 43. Spend Some Time with You

Athena

Yup! Exactly what I needed to hear. That was a wakeup call.

Athena, you’re his sister.

“Yeah, I’m sure he won’t.” She nodded her head.

“You guys should talk it out when he comes” I stared at her with a smile.

“We will don’t worry. Hope Kiara didn’t miss me too much” I joked trying to get the conversation off me.

“Of course she did. You’ll come around soon, right?”

“Yea I would” we both walked into my office catching out on the day before that I wasn’t present.

We walked together toward my office, catching up on the work I’d missed the day before. Leah filled me in on customer calls, parts orders, and the general chaos of running a busy garage.

I was grateful she didn’t ask why I’d been absent—maybe because I was technically her boss, or maybe because she could see I wasn’t ready to talk about it.

What would I have said anyway? Sorry I missed work because I’d nearly overdosed.

I threw myself into paperwor