Mister Dream Man
But instead, my throat locked, the storm inside me swirling too violently to form anything but silence.
He braced his hands against the counter, his shoulders hunched in a way I had never seen before, like the great Lawrence Devereaux, the man who commanded fear with just his name, was suddenly nothing more than a man cornered by his own mistakes.
"You don't get to say that," I forced out, each word cutting against the tremor in my chest. "You don't get to mourn ghosts you created."
His head lifted, eyes flashing with something I couldn't name—anger at himself, or maybe desperation that bordered on pleading. "Then tell me how to make this right."
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