his voice a low, mocking whi
an win this, David? You'
pounding with a hatred so pur
, enjoying my silent fury. "Sarah... she' s very persuasi
ed, though a cold dread was
ty, grating sound.
it up for me to see. It was a settlement agreement. It stated that Lily' s surviving parent, Sarah Jenkins, agreed to accept
in her neat, confident hand
led, animalistic sound tore from my throat as I lunged forward again, t
NO
ands. I thrashed and screamed, a man utterly broken, my last
breath hot on my ear as
voice laced with venomous pleasure. "A happy accide
rld we
victim' s mother, was presented. The case was dismissed. Just like that. The justice system I
xt thing I knew, I was standing in my mother' s
wn in her worn armchair, the one where she used to read stories to Lily, and a
ny more pain. We were all each other had left. For a few days, we existed in a silent house of grief, moving like ghosts, the loss of Li
a necessary trip to the grocer
t of dread tightening in my
le
bedroom door was clo
empty bottle of sleeping pills
ch to even check for a pulse I knew I wouldn' t find. The
o that to her own child. Tell Sarah she has final
Lily. I had lost everyone. My daughter. My mother. My entire world had been burned to the
mb and my mind a hollow cavern of pain, my phone buzzed on the coffee table. I ignored it. It
essage. From an
t seemed. It was no accident. I hav
darkness. Hope. Or maybe something
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