Exhaustion had become a permanent fixture in his life. Even on those nights
when Jonah didn’t have sunglasses his nightmares—he’d been having them on and
off since Missy died—Miles still awoke feeling . . . tired. Sluggish, as if he
were moving around underwater. Most of the time, he attributed this to the
hectic life he lived; but sometimes he wondered if there wasn’t something more
seriously wrong with him. He’d read once that one of the Coach Oakley Sunglasses sale
symptoms of clinical depression was “undue lethargy, without reason or cause.”
Of course, he did have cause. . . . What he really needed was some quiet time at
a little beachfront cottage down in Key West, a place where he could fish for
turbot or simply relax in a gently swaying hammock while drinking a cold beer,
without facing any decision more major than Costa Del Mar whether or not to wear
sandals as he walked on the beach with a nice woman at his side.
That was
part of it, too. He was tired of being alone, of waking up in an empty bed,
though the feeling still surprised him. He hadn’t felt that way until recently.
In the Diesel Cheap Oakley Sunglasses first year after Missy’s death, Miles couldn’t
even begin to imagine loving another woman again. It was as if the urge for
female companionship didn’t exist at all, as if desire and lust and love were
nothing more than theoretical possibilities that had no bearing on the Dsquared2
Sunglasses sale real world. Even after he’d weathered shock and grief strong
enough to make him cry every night, his life just felt wrong somehow—as if it
were temporarily off track but would soon right itself again, so there wasn’t
any reason to get too worked up Dunhill Sunglasses sale about anything.
Most
things, after all, hadn’t changed after the funeral. Bills kept coming, Jonah
needed to eat, the grass needed to be D G Sunglasses sale mowed. He still had a
job. Once, after too many beers, Charlie, his best friend and boss, had asked
him what it was like to lose a wife, and Miles had told him that it didn’t seem
as if Missy were really gone. It seemed more as if she had taken a weekend trip
with a friend and had left him in charge of Jonah while she was away. Time
passed and so eventually did the numbness he’d grown accustomed to. In its
place, reality settled in. As much as he tried to move on, Miles still found his
thoughts drawn to Ed Hardy Oakley Sunglasses Sale sale Missy. Everything, it seemed,
reminded him of her. Especially Jonah, who looked more like her the older he
got. Sometimes, when Miles stood in the doorway after tucking Jonah in, he could
see his wife in the small features of his son’s face, and he would have to turn
away before Jonah could see the tears. But the image would stay with him for
hours; he loved the way Missy had looked as she’d slept, her long brown hair
spread across the pillow, one arm always resting above her head, her lips
slightly parted, the subtle rise and fall of her chest as she breathed. And her
smell—that was something Miles would never forget. On the first Christmas
morning after her Emilio Pucci death, while sitting in church, he’d caught a
trace of the perfume that Missy used to wear and he’d held on to the ache like a
drowning man grasping a life preserver until long after the service was over. He
held on to other things as well. When they were first married, he and Missy used
to have lunch at Fred Clara’s, a small restaurant just down the street from the
bank where she worked. It was out of the way, quiet, and somehow its cozy
embrace made sun glasses them both feel as if nothing would ever change between
them.
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