The rain began to fall as I tore down the winding mountain pass, thick and heavy droplets that blurred the world into a gray smear of shadows. My hands were white knuckled on the steering wheel, my breath coming in shallow, jagged gasps. Behind me, the headlights of Marcus’s SUV loomed like the eyes of a persistent predator. Every time I accelerated, he was there. Every time I swerved to avoid a slick patch of road, he adjusted his trajectory with a clinical, terrifying precision.
Two years. I had spent two years building a life of peace, only for it to be dismantled in a single afternoon by a man who didn't even remember my name.
"What happened to 'you and me', Silas?" I choked out, the words echoing mockingly in the cramped space of the car.
There was no 'you and me' anymore. There wa
