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Valerie finished with her purse, dragging her skinny ass from the floor to leave. She was muttering something to herself, her words all jumbled together, spoken with too much saliva in her mouth.
“Never should have listened to that guy. Stupid motherfucker. Why did I listen to him?”
I reached to grab her, wanting to know what the fuck she was talking about. Who she was talking about. She stabbed something into my forearm and I hissed, drawing back, giving the cunt the perfect opportunity to grab my Ghost by the hair. Prying her from her aunt with a screech.
Ava Jade grunted as she jerked free, spinning on her heel like a dancer, her blade held out in a dangerous arc. Her mother managed to save herself from a certain death, falling backward just in time. The blade skated across her mother’s throat, just enough to kiss the flesh there, to make bright red bloom over the pale skin. Not enough to kill her.
But there was still time.
“Oh my god,” Ava Jade breathed, and I found her staring at me, all the frenzied rage in her eyes gone, replaced with a horror I didn’t understand.
Until I felt it. The rush of euphoria taking over so swiftly I couldn’t feel my legs under me. Couldn’t feel my face. But I could see the needle now, stuck in my arm, the plunger pushed all the way down. I shut my eyes, grinning as the heroin shot through my blood, erasing all the dark.
“Rook!”
