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“Cross my heart.”
“Can I plant a garden? One with only sunflowers?”
“I’ll buy you every last sunflower I can find.”
“Okay.” She smiled, as I wiped away her tears.
She still looked so scared.
I desperately tried to stay strong for her, ignoring the rambling and thrashing coming from the living room through the thin ass walls.
Her arms wrapped around my neck so tightly, and for the first time in a long time, it felt like she wanted to give up. Bailey wasn’t as strong as I was, and it made everything that much harder on me. I had to be her rock in order for us to survive the outcome.
“Why don’t they want us, Aiden? Why doesn’t anyone ever want us?”
“I want you, Bailey. I want you.”
“You promi—”
BANG, BANG, BANG!
“Police! Open up!”
All the blood drained from my face, and my heart leapt up into my throat. There was no hiding it, not in a moment like this.
“Aiden, what’s going on?”
The front door crashed open, rattling the whole damn house. Boxes fell from the shelves above us, and heavy footsteps were heard clear as day.
“It’s not what it looks like,” Mr. Byron lied through his teeth. It was exactly what it looked like.
Someone must have called the cops.
“Bailey, run!” I ordered, my voice rumbling in my head.
“What? Why—”
I threw open the closet doors just as all hell broke loose.
“Oh fuck,” I heard one of the men, wearing an officer uniform, breathe out.
He stopped dead in his tracks when he saw us hiding in the closet.
“They’re in here! Two of them are in here!” he shouted.
“Bailey! Go! RUN!” I charged the officer, wanting her to get a head start.
She didn’t move an inch, her feet glued to the floor beneath her. Watching the scene unfold in front of her fear-stricken eyes, witnessing yet another one of our worst nightmares.
“AIDEN!” she screamed bloody murder as the officer held me back.
My stomach dropped.
My heart stopped.
Waiting for the man I knew would appear.
“Where’s Misty?! I want Misty!” I demanded, trying to fight him off.
