Not so fast...

Finally my secret is safe! I have been living in dread for the past 23 and a half years, always wondering if my secret would be safe like he promised. He would toy with me, and manipulate me; always hinting but never quite acting. He could have ruined my life at any point, and was just fickle and devious enough to do it. Every day, I would wake up and wonder if today would be the day he would shine light on the darkness of my heinous deeds. Would this be the day that I caused some imagined slight, and invoked him into action?  Every morning, I checked the contents of my emergency escape bag, not knowing if this would the day I would have to try to disappear. 

But, now he is dead, and I can finally relax, maybe even unpack my bag. I can pursue new opportunities, without the fear of having it all disintegrate with a few leaked words. No more living under the haunted fear that my lies will revealed, or my secrets  exposed. All those years, I was at his mercy, and never dared to be too visible, lest I cross his capricious threshold of tolerance and incur his retribution. 

Well, in your face, fate! I've gotten away with it, and can finally start living my life without fear. So where do I start? Finally go on a date? Volunteer for a charity? Apply for a job with actual responsibility? Well, I'm sure not going to the will reading. I'm not going to waste anymore time worrying about what he's going to do.  And, there is no reason I'd be in his will anyway...

Or is there?

I'd better leave that bag packed.