“Regretting your decision already, pretty bird?”

I ran from one monster only to jump into the arms of another.

Why?

Because life is cruel to people like me, someone who’s been to hell and escaped broken, well beyond repair. For three years, I’ve been hiding, trying to heal through the vivid memories that keep me under my husband’s control, needing...

He asks what’s wrong.

Everything and nothing at all.

I smile like we’re okay because how does one speak the truth when the facts are hard to say?

No one will understand.

Do you stay quiet, hoping one day that longing deep within your gut will eventually fade, just like everything else you folded away? You chose to be that woman—a wife, a mother, a...

Whiskey will forever taste like him.

One glance created an insatiable urge, and a drunken kiss sealed my desire for a stranger where the smallest drop of Whiskey reminds me of our moment, even if I don’t know his name.

The odds of finding him were low until life dropped me on his doorstep with a resume, waiting for a job interview. I’m to be his...