My Father's Best Friend, My Obsession
A slow smile pulled at my lips as I began walking down the street, my steps unhurried, my mind already moving past the rejection and into something far more productive.
‘She thinks this ends here.’
It didn’t. It never did.
Because the moment she handed me that manuscript, the moment she trusted me with her story, it stopped being just hers.
Stories didn’t belong to the people who lived them. They belonged to the people who knew how to tell them. And I was very good at that.
I slipped my phone out of my pocket as I walked, my thumb unlocking the screen with ease, my gaze scanning through a series of messages, notifications, numbers, all of it noise until I landed on the one thing that actuall