On My Birthday I Stood In Front Of Everyone With A Black Eye

of them tapped Daniel on the shoulder and said five words that made Vanessa drop her champagne glass:

“You both need to come with us.”

The glass shattered on the floor. Nobody moved to clean it up.

And for the first time that night, I smiled.

But what nobody in that room knew – not even James — was what I had found hidden inside Thomas’s old briefcase continue reading …