Chapter 20 - The Beat Goes On
Before going to bed, I walked into the bathroom and looked in the mirror.
I took off my shirt, tracing the slight bump on my upper left chest.
My heart was defective by birth, broken by my family, and saved by science and a stepmother’s fierce love.
My phone buzzed on the counter.
It was a news alert.
Former local businessman Richard Vance arrested on multiple counts of fraud in low-income housing scheme.
I read the headline, felt a brief second of pity for the miserable man he was, and then swiped the notification away into the trash, erasing him from my screen just as I had erased him from my life.
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I walked out of the bathroom, turned off the hallway light, and went to sleep.
Tomorrow was a new day, and for the first time in my life, my heart was beating exactly the way it was supposed to.
