Her phone buzzed in her pocket.She looked at the text.It was her manager, reminding her that she had the early shift tomorrow.
She walked, taking the closest road and trudging on.She wasn't the same girl who'd begged Finn to let her stay.She wasn't broken and lost.
But she wasn't whole either.
Everstill had taken something from her.Finn had taken something from her.
She sighed and looked at the asphalt.No, she'dgivenherself to them.
All she knew was that she'd keep walking roads until her feet blistered, if that's what it took to get back to Finn.
Somewhere out there, a door existed that only she could go through.And she wasn't done trying to find a way to open it.
Chapter 13
Finn
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Something was wrongwith the town the moment Finn stepped onto the street.Too quiet.Too muggy.A pressure crawled beneath his skin, warning him of something out of his reach.
He pushed open the door to the grocery store.The bell above it chimed.He swept his gaze across the front of the building and found Moe at the endcap on aisle two, stacking cans with slow, mechanical precision.
"Hey, Moe," Finn said.
Moe placed another can on the shelf, then glanced over his shoulder."Morning."
Finn studied him.Moe always had questions.Out of the others, he was the only one who continually tried to get out of Everstill.But this morning, he looked...defeated.
"You remember the girl?"he asked.
Moe's hand froze mid-reach."What girl?"
"Kallie."
A single slow blink."Oh.Right.The kid who wandered in a few days ago."
