The Hockey King's Secret Twins

They sold me for ten million dollars.

One night with a stranger. My father signed the check. My stepmother poured the drug into my cocoa. My stepsister laughed while two men dragged me upstairs.

The man who came to me in the dark was burning with fever, black veins crawling up his arm. He asked me only one thing: "Are you sure?"

By dawn, he was gone. He never even saw my face.

My family rolled me off a cliff into the river below, and went back inside to finish their wine.

Five years later.