CHAPTER 254

He reached out and gripped her hand. He did it unconsciously, but he needed to touch her. He didn’t know what disorder she was talking about, but he already knew it had no cure. It scared him, the unknown.

“Tell me,” Jack said. “I want to know.”

Dianna looked at him for a long moment before she exhaled slowly. “I have fibromyalgia,” she finally said.

“Fibromyalgia?”

Dianna nodded. “Have you heard of it? Do you know anything about it?”

“I’ve heard the word, but I don’t really know what it is.”

Dianna took another deep breath. “I don’t know how to say this without sounding like a Wikipedia page,” she said.

“Hit me with it,” Jack replied. “I’m all for a Wikipedia page explanation.”

“Fibromyalgia is a chronic disorder that causes widespread pain, general fatigue, brain fog, and a whole host of other things that pretty much make life difficult. In the most simplistic terms, my brain doesn’t interpret pain the same way other people’s brains do. There are also a myriad of oth