Amanda Smith finished speaking and then fell silent.
Sitting in the car, she seemed lost and exhausted. While Samuel Johnson was alive, she hated him so fiercely she wished he would die, and now that he had finally disappeared, she felt as if her entire being had been hollowed out.
It was as if he took her heart with him in death.
She didn't feel sad, just empty inside, as if something was missing.
When she closed her eyes, she could see the man getting out of bed that morning, his smiling face, telling her he would spend the next month with her, saying "wait for me to come back," and the way he turned to leave…
