Torment Me (Rough Love Part One) - Plot & Excerpts
Simon had sent seventeen messages between two and four A.M. Come home, Chere Where a u Im to high Ser Yes, when he was high, he forgot how to spell my name. That wasn’t unusual. But the last message read, Ths is the end, and that terrified me out of my luxurious hotel room and into a taxi. The end? What end? The end of us? The end of his life? I imagined Simon alone, too high, haunted by drug demons and surrounded by his destroyed artwork. I’d always feared accidental overdose, but would he purposely kill himself? I shouldn’t have left him alone so soon after our argument, and I shouldn’t have spent the night at the Mandarin. I urged the cab driver to hurry. He sneered in the rearview mirror at my frizzed hair, morning face, and low cut maxi dress, and made the obvious, belittling conclusion. Whatever. The last thing on my mind was some stranger’s judgment. What if? What if... When I arrived, I found the door to our loft ajar. That wasn’t unusual either, unfortunately. We’d been robbed twice, because when Simon was high, he sometimes forgot to close it.
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