this is what I owe you

FICTION: Long Short Story, Psychological Thriller, Chick Lit

This is What I Owe You is the story of a young woman who falls into a drug-infused sexual relationship with a man dangerous to her mind and body.

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o"I just got released this afternoon."

e you Kristin Hart

Those were Jake's first words to me. They should have been an ample warning: he was too stupid even to lie. Not fresh out of jail, it turned out, but a psychiatric hospital, which unfortunately roused my interest. We were drinking 7&7's in the bar at a motel by the freeway. I was eager to escape from one oppression and blind to one much worse, ready to bind up my fate with anybody willing to buy me a drink.

He proceeded to tell me the whole story. How he and his wife had developed a taste for cocaine and snorted it together every night for over a year. How she'd been systematically denying it since his arrest, how everyone believed her, how this drove him to despair.