Just when I was about to crawl out of my bed and find
something to hang myself with, an elderly man wearing a clerical collar walked
into the room.
I stiffened.
He held up a hand covered in age spots. “I know I’m probably one of the last people you want to talk to, so I won’t stay long,” he said. “I just wanted to sit with you for a little
while, if that’s all right.”
My finger that hovered over the call button relaxed when he smiled. It was not the smile of a maniac. I knew what that smile looked like now.
He then patted my hand.
I wanted to ask him where God had been while Vince tortured me in the
barn, but the words didn’t come; exhaustion had, for the moment at least,
extinguished my rage. As I heard him settle
into the chair next to me, I fell into a sleep so deep that I did not wake up again
until the staff member came in with my breakfast.
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