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Chapter 1

Ollie

It was my first day on the job at the new company, and all I could think about was how anxious I was I hated the anxiety I felt It had been plaguing me for years now, and I couldn’t escape it, no ht a special kind of anxiety that was al My dad used to tell me to just breathe, but how could I breathe when there didn’t sees?

I wasn’t anxious about the job I had worked in investment for years now, and it was a seamless and siood at it, and although I tried to fight it, I couldn’t turn dohat my boss, Mike, had put on the table I think he knew that when he sent me the offer

I was still working for the same company, TGI Investainstto kick ass in the new position That wasn’t even a worry on my mind It seemed that I found my niche in life early on, and I focused in on invests floating around inme was the fact that I was in Madison, a place I had promised myself that I would never come back to under any circumstances

Yet there I was, looking around at all the fas Five years after ured I would have learned how to cope, but that didn’t seem to be the deal

Madison in itself was a great town It was a place where people were born, stayed to raise their kids, and then generations inherited lands and property It was also a college tohich was how I knew the place I went to the University of Wisconsin, and I knew the lay of the land, including all the old places that I used to love to go, but now, they were just painful reminders

My new house was great, with several bedroo location, but it was only a few blocks away froet tothatthe outside, watching the kids go in and out, made me think of her

The new job was like a drea investor would want It was outside of theI’d ever had before, and it was situated in a small toith quiet streets and beautiful views To anyone on the outside, it was the perfect offer and perfect situation At least, that hat I toldthe pen

This toasn’t what it seemed to everyone else It held a darkness for me, and no matter what I did, I was never able to break free fro where no one knew me The love of my life, the wo a faht here in Madison

Everywhere I turned, every beat I heard, every tree, building, library, and church h, her s in the breeze that blew through the trees around the cah the streets forto feel like this was a really bigI should have listened to my doubts about in the first place