All tagged trust
“Have faith in me,” he said when he hit on the Next Big Thing. “We will be richer than you could ever imagine.”
I have been afraid of water since I was six.
He says it never happened. The airport, his arms dangling me over the railing.
I was drowning. Or so I thought. My head kept bobbing under and I was taking in gulps of lake water again and again.
When I told her my secret, she promised not to tell anyone, so the surprise was fierce when we were all in the car a few days later and, out of the blue, she announced it.