Kiki—-I don’t know when the anger stopped being something I was trying to control and turned into something I wanted to feel.Standing there, staring at Dan, listening to the lies rolling out of his mouth while his thoughts told a completely different story, something inside me just… snapped into place, and for the first time since everything started, I wasn’t sad, I wasn’t confused, I wasn’t even hurt the way I used to be.I was furious.And the craziest part was that I liked it.The idea of hurting him, of making him feel even a fraction of what I felt when I lost everything, when I lost my babies, my sister, my mother, my home, it made something dark and satisfied curl inside my chest, and I didn’t fight it.I embraced it.My eyes dropped to the table beside me, and that was when I saw a knife just sitting there like it had been waiting for me, clean, sharp, reflecting the cold light in the room, and without thinking twice, I reached for it, my fingers wrapping around the handle
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