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Which should absolutely not bother me. Not anymore.
She wasn’t my problem.
And I’d been trying to convince myself of that exact thing as I was driving.
And shopping.
And driving again.
This wasn’t my problem to fix.
Even so, I parked my truck, got out, and made my way up to the iron gate. It took me a second to shift the bags in my hands so I could open the gate and walk through.
Luckily, the courtyard was empty.
Probably because there was another stupid episode of the stupid show on tonight. I was supposed to go over to Beau’s in an hour.
I didn’t see how I’d make it.
Oh, well.
I knocked on the door in front of me, but there was no answer. I tried again.
The door swung open, and I was face-to-face with a very angry Beau. I could feel the frustrated energy flowing out of him.
His eyes darted to the bags in my hand, and he let out a long, growling sound. “Thank fuck. Now move out of my way, Clemens. There’s only one fuckin’ place for this computer.” He held it up in one hand as his eyes stared at me—unblinking.
I raised my eyebrows and quickly stepped out of his way. I wasn’t sure what he was about to do, but I knew there’d be no stopping him even if I did.
“No, stop!” Jillian shouted from inside her place. And then two seconds later, she burst through the doorway. “Don’t! Beau!”
He turned around and scowled at her. “It has to be done, Jillian. This is the only humane thing to do. You have to put it out of its misery. And you have to put us out of ours. Every last person here has tried to fix it. There’s no hope.” Beau’s voice had trailed off and for a moment, I thought he was going to hand the computer back to Jillian.
Nope.
He suddenly turned back around and stalked to the edge of the pool.
And then—
“Holy shit,” I muttered under my breath while I watched Jillian’s computer sail through the air.
And directly into the pool.
“No!” Jillian shouted, her hands clasping her head.
Beau stepped over to her and put his hands on her shoulders. “It had to be done. You weren’t strong enough to let go. So, I did it for you.”
Not surprisingly, Jillian did not appear to be all that grateful. Her eyes got wide. So did her mouth. “Are you insane?”
Beau briefly closed his eyes and then said, “One day you’ll thank me for this.”
Jillian’s eyes narrowed, and I saw—and heard—her take a huge breath, “No,” she said in an eerily quiet tone, “I’m going to kill you!”
And then—
I swear, I’m not lying.
She pushed Beau into the pool.
