He Asked Me to Stop Talking About My Cancer

he want?”

“He kept saying, ‘She can’t freeze me out like this.’”

That made me laugh.

Actually laugh.

It hurt my ribs.

Freeze me out.

As if I was withholding party invitations and not information about poison being pumped into my veins.

Allison watched my face and softened.

“Natalie.”

I knew that tone.

The one right before somebody says the thing you’ve already continue reading …