Safe Enough

I hated what he got away with. I hate even more that he was looking at me now with that self-satisfied smile, as if he liked what happened. As if he stole something from me that night. We were perhaps, twenty feet apart. We were in a public space, but my pulse exploded anyway, as if he’d just cornered me in a dark room. He closed the distance between us before I could make my escape.

“Hobbs told m