The Way He Looked at Me
I tell him gently, “you might not always get to pick your number.”
He tilts his head, a sly smile tugging at the corner of his mouth. “But you picked number one, didn’t you?”
The knife drives into my side, sliding between ribs and angling straight toward my heart. Pain explodes, sharp and unrelenting, and in that instant, I’m back with Mera back to that night in the bar years ago. We’d only known each other a few weeks then, maybe six, maybe eight. Not long, but long enough to feel the gravity she carried with her. The way she moved, laughed, leaned into the world it threw me off balance every time.
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