I Came Home to an Empty RV Pad and Security Footage I Was Not Prepared For

a mechanism of control. She had used versions of it before. What she had not previously done was use it on a person who had already, quietly and over several years, begun to calculate what life without her particular brand of belonging would actually cost.

Is that a promise, I asked.

She gasped. I disconnected the call.

I opened my laptop and logged into continue reading …