You know damn well what they’d say, Adrian snarls snidely in my head. You’re just pretending like you don’t care so that it’ll hurt less when they prove you right and act like they don’t give a f**k. Which they won’t. Because they don’t.
I hear his phantom laugh in the peripheries of my mind. It makes me want to cry, just as much as it makes me want to laugh. It’s just the familiarity of it. Of him. I miss that more than I miss the man himself. I miss knowing the path my life was going to take.
I drag myself out of my emotional whirlpool and focus on Dr. Calloway. She moves around the examination room with a practiced ease, as though she’s been working from it for years.
She gives me a soft, reassuring smile. Despite my best efforts not to, I actually like her. She’s thorough, clearly s
