Run.
Maybe I would get a dog.
I gambled on the door being open. If he woke up, I could just argue I was getting a midnight snack.
Luck was on my side, and the door was cracked. I slipped in, silently thanking the hinges for not failing any more and staying quiet. I closed the door behind me and surveyed the room. Something was off. Things were more barren than when I left. Ted’s laundry basket of clothes was gone, the lamp was off his bedside table, the picture of his family no longer hanging on the wall. I breathed out, unable to decide whether or not it was a good thing he was clearing out or not. On the one hand, it would make getting out easier - on the other, he knew I had been gone. The las
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