What a cliffhanger ending!!! More to come, I hope?
He'd better not be dead!! Especially not after she'd finally learned to give up the worrying!
Memorable story here, and if he's dead, I want to forget the story (mostly just kidding)--you know me and the deaths of fictional characters! My husband keeps telling me "It's only a story," but to me, a story is even more real than reality, sometimes.
Well done! You got to me today, and that's a sign of powerful writing.