The Killer Who Found Me
Something high in my chest something I had not known I was holding released, and I almost sat back down from the shock of how much lighter my body was without it.
I did not sit back down.
I walked across my own living room. Past the couch where Derek had been. Past the coffee table Derek had not assembled. Past the rug Derek had picked.
Down the hall, slow because my wrist still hurt and slow because I had not yet remembered how to move in a house without mapping the distance to exits, and into the bedroom where a pink lacquered box had been waiting, patient, for three years.
I opened the nightstand drawer.
I lifted the book. An old paperback copy of a novel I had loved before I met Derek, a
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