St. Elizabeth’s offsite housing was actually an old Victorian remodeled to offer five smallish apartments, if you counted the basement apartment where Mrs. Stevens, the caretaker, stayed.
Each one was big enough for two people to share. In Ellie’s case that meant her and Sammy.
There was nothing wrong with the house. It was fine. But my hackles went up every time I thought about her living there.
It was boorish of me, I knew that. But I couldn’t help it. Ellie deserved better. She deserved the best. She deserved me.
It wasn’t conceit that had me calling myself the best. It was fact. No one else could possibly feel about that woman the way I did.
She was all I thought about. Everything I saw, heard, smelled, felt.
It was all her.
All Ellie.
And. She. Was. Everything. To. Me.
Yeah, I was sick. Borderline fucking psycho. But what could I say?
Ellie and me, we were simply meant to be. I believed that with every fiber of my being.