My Pathetic Obsession With The Hockey Boy
I’d watched Celeste use a rotation of burner accounts to burn Cheryl’s life to the ground online over a couple of weeks, cowardly, indirect, designed to plant a seed and let someone else do the dirty work of watering it.
I picked the phone back up and read it a fourth time.
God, I hated how easy it was for the doubt to sink in. It slid right into the groove Richard had spent eighteen years carving out, the part of me hardwired to expect the knife in the back the second I turned around. Trust is weakness, he used to say, usually right after someone failed him in a way that had zero to do with me. Everyone leaves.
Everyone takes what they can get and disappears.