ana

d a sin

d the vintage Nikon camera I hadn't touched

eys on the m

ds he gave me, abandoning the

alked out of the penthous

?" the dr

red, my voice trembling, befo

r door and didn

o a hug that smelled l

here for t

off, a black b

nd cried until my ey

day, I woke up and

lt l

aps, but und

d up my

ndane and the broken: cracked pavement, weeds forcing their way

ter holding my breath und

ork and found me editi

said, dropping her purse ont

kno

e. He sounde

wor

were done throw

asping sound, like dead le

come back beca

yo

gen. I don'

d a bro

tered on the front pag

in Powell on th

ked th

e, radiating that practi

sked him about hi

r, Jami. She's my muse. She knows what I need before I do. Just last week, she had

fr

amia

st hearing the words.

ad been banned from our home. A

new

I thought h

n continued, his eyes soften

d the la

t that h

mply didn't care

d my safety wi

I had finally tu

text fr

ome. The house is a mess a

anoth

she doesn't know where thing

lf

him my inheritance. I sacr

fish because he coul

ed a

ion is the date you founded the company.

't hit

deleted t

and grabb

you going?"

o go back

ana,

ng into steel. "I left something behind

ha

ther's

ked at me

t me to com

need to see him one last time, w

into the cool

returning

a crime scene to co