Pondering What Might Have Happened

This led Salazar to wonder if something bad had happened to him. She would come to work hoping that Swords would be seated at his usual spot at Luby’s, but then she would feel gutted when she would see a vacant table.

One day, before her shift started, the waitress headed to the back of the establishment and browsed the local newspaper. While she only thought that it was an ordinary day, it became a heartbreaking one when she saw something that ultimately shattered her heart into tiny bits.