I Gave Away the Birthday Chocolates, Then the Screaming Started

poison with a smile. I do not regret cutting them out. I regret that it took almost dying to do it.”

Brandon nodded, eyes older than his age. “I get it now,” he said. “Family is not who you are born to. It is who would protect you.”

He was right.

Every morning I stepped onto my balcony with coffee and watched the sun rise over a city that no longer felt continue reading …