Cruel Echoes

Then it hit me.

I slid down the sink, ass hitting the cold floor, knees buckling like they’d been cut. My back scraped the cabinet door on the way down, but I didn’t even feel it. I pressed both hands over my mouth to muffle the sob that ripped out of me anyway — ugly, broken, the kind that makes your whole body shake like you’re freezing even though the room was suddenly a million degrees.

I wa