All Chapters of My stepdad's fantasy: Chapter 91

​The move to the coast happened faster than I ever expected it was as if, once we had spoken the words aloud in the dark, the universe or perhaps just our own desperate will accelerated to meet us we packed our lives into boxes that didn’t even contain a single piece of evidence from our past and we left behind the mahogany box, the burner phones, and the cold, clinical efficiency of our Chicago aapartmentwe drove for three days, the landscape shifting from the industrial sprawl of the Midwest to the rolling, golden hills of the Pacific Northwest and on the fourth morning we stood on the deck of a rented cottage overlooking a rugged mist covered bay the air here wasn't even smelling like city exhaust and radiator heat,it tasted of salt, pine needles, and the terrifying, beautiful scent of a beginning a very new beginning .​Sofia and Emma were already down on the shoreline, their laughter carried up the cliffside by the wind as they hunted for tide pool treasures and as I watched the