All The Lives We Stole
Language: en
"Nora, the social worker told me Felix has incredible test scores and such an angelic face. You really ought to take him," Hazel said, leaning into my shoulder with a theatrical pout. "If I didn't have my heart completely set on a girl, I wouldn't dream of letting you have him." I looked at the tightness around her eyes, the faint twitch at the corner of her lips, and knew instantly: she had come back, too. The ghost of her face from my previous life flashed across my memory—that twisted, triumphant sneer as the rat poison tore through my stomach while I collapsed across her kitchen table.…