Love on Thin Ice
I reached into the passenger seat, my hand brushing against a heavy, corner-bent textbook that had been sliding around my floorboards for three days.
Advanced Political Journalism.
She had left it in the glove box of my truck back when we were still pretending.
Back when her hands were soft against my neck, and the world hadn't turned into a cynical, transactional nightmare.
"Just returning the property," I muttered to the empty cab, my jaw tightening as I grabbed the book.
“A clean break."
The hallway of her apartment building was suffocatingly quiet, smelling faintly of lemon cleaner and old carpet.
My heavy boots sank into the runner as I walked down the corridor, the alcohol in my blood