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Because she helped me see it through, to find who I was on the other side, and?—
I’m going to do the same for her.
I’m going to be around.
Even if?—
The fear that slides through me is so intense, so agonizing, so like what sent me out the door in the first place that I have to clench my teeth, grip the edge of the counter, barely resisting the urge to run again.
“That good, huh?” Dan mutters.
I jump, not having heard the sneaky fucker come in behind me.
I inhale slowly, exhale silently.
“I’m good,” I mutter.
“You sure about that?”
“Yup.” I take a long sip of my beer.
“You know what I do.”
Know that he can murder me, make my body disappear, and then make the world forget I existed at all?
Yeah, I know that.
“I didn’t want to hurt your sister, Dan,” I mutter, then drain the bottle and set it on the counter with a soft clink.
“You just felt like you had to?”
“I—”
Well, yeah.
But even I can see what a fucking cop-out of an answer that sounds like.
Dan sighs, moves to the fridge, pulling out two more bottles of beer and popping their tops. He hands one to me, takes a sip of his. Then sighs, leaning his hip against the counter. “You know what I do,” he says again.
“Yeah, I know that you could unalive me, Dan,” I mutter, tracing the label on the bottle with my thumb. “I know that you’ll do it if I hurt her again.”
“You know what I do,” he repeats a third time.
I sigh, irritated now. “Yes,” I snap. “I know what you do, Dan.”
“So, you know I have access to things,” he says. “Things other people might not.”
I narrow my eyes.
“Things like medical records.”
I freeze, then panic snakes down my spine again. Fuck. I open my mouth?—
And the garage door rumbles open.
My head whips toward the hall, listening to the engine of Brit’s car echoing through the garage, hearing it shut off a moment later, knowing that I have seconds to put this shit to rest. “Don’t you?—”
Which is the exact moment I hear her cry out, a barely audible yell through the walls, through the door.
