Dame pauses for a moment and stares at me thoughtfully. “What do you want, Rio?”
That was a great question. What did I want?
“I want to stay and see the things I came to do. But I can’t express that to her because I don’t think she’d understand.” I lean across the table towards Dame. “Do you ever feel like the world you’ve built and known your entire life has been just one big fu.cking lies, and the only grounding thing about it has left you unprepared and alone?”
I didn’t know why I was telling this to a woman I had just met, but I liked Dame. There was something about her that made me want to spill every detail about myself.
“More than you’d probably realize. Do you know the remedy for it, though?” She answered back, equally leaning in towards me.
Our eye contact doesn’t shake.
“Yo
