Demolition Before the Bloom

didn’t say goodbye.

I didn’t give him the satisfaction of a final speech.

He wasn’t worth my words. He wasn’t worth my anger anymore.

He was just a pathetic, unemployed man crying on a ruined lawn.

One of the men in suits opened the heavy, armored door of the middle SUV.

I lifted Maya into the back seat.

Leo climbed in right behind her.

I stepped up into continue reading …