The truck groaned as it climbed a shallow hill, tires slipping briefly on hidden ice before finding traction again. Caleb tightened his grip on the wheel and leaned forward slightly, squinting through the windshield where snowflakes spun wildly in the headlights.
No music played.
No phone call waited.
There was no one expecting him anywhere.
Loneliness had stopped feeling painful years ago; it had simply become the background noise of his life.
And yet, even as he drove through that endless winter silence, something unexpected waited just beyond the rise ahead…….
