‘fine’. For the first time I saw the man get truly pissed off. He told me that until I stopped lying to myself and everyone else I would never be fine… I would never heal. He said something that really made me think. I can lie to everyone around me, but I can never lie to myself and until I face what happened, Chantal and his d**k wads will continue to win. I needed to open up… I need to take back my life. So, that’s what I’m going to do.”
Elijah ran his hands over his face, then his voice softened as he looked up, then back at them all.
“I thought if I pretended life hadn’t changed that I’d be able to get past it all. If I could just pretend that none of the s**t in that cell ever happened… I thought I could fake it ‘til I made it.
So, I tried to bury it. I thought it was working, b
