The moment I saw the jacket, everything I’d buried came roaring back to life. Fourteen years of silence, of pretending, of careful, practiced numbness shattered in a single breath. I wasn’t ready. I thought I was safe. But one crumpled pocket, one folded page, and suddenly I was eighteen again, standing on the edge of the life I never chose. My fingers closed around the paper, pulse hammering, the past clawing its way out of the dark as I felt the edges of the note that had fol… Continues…
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