Needing You Turned Into an Obsession

I don’t remember running up the stairs. My feet move on their own, slamming against the hardwood.

I was suffocating down there. I was struggling to stand.

Ryker’s words still ring in my ears. The faces of the detectives as they looked at Vance when my mother told them what he was doing. The judgment in their eyes they couldn’t quite hide.

The rage in my mother’s voice was nothing new, but her di