Robbie
I slept like a man who knew what shape the monster wore. When the bones broke in my dream, they didn’t scare me so much as piss me off. I woke up with a plan that tasted like copper and arrogance.
Holland.
I said her name into the room like it was the only prayer I knew. I hated that I’d become the guy who believed in someone like an answer. But she’d been the only person, even at my worst, who looked at me like I wasn’t parts. She’d also been the person who walked away and left me to die because I’d made it untenable to love me. Both those things can be true. I can have been the problem and still think about her every time my hands forget not to reach for something easy.
I told Mike I was thinking about making amends. “Not yet,” he said. “You want amends, you change. Amends are
