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"You - you can let hway and well clear of town Maggie hadn&039;t seen any police cars - otten away in time "You don&039;t need gie had her reasons

She turned up the h her She had to be careful not to drive too fast - the last thing she wanted noas to be pulled over for speeding But this thing inside her, this evil thing she&039;d nurtured and grown kept calling out for ht it, she&039;d learned that much She could try to cal would happen, soer would roar

In the seat next to her Brent&039;s little friend was curled up and whirowled She checked the speedohty as a little Outside the desert whirled by, red rock and sunshine At this speed it looked eer could sto to crag and tearing the stunted trees out of the ground by their roots "I said stop looking at me!"

Lucy turned her face into the stained fabric of her seat "I&039; wheel, not quite hard enough to bend it out of shape "It&039;s alright," she forced herself to say If she hurt this girl she kneould be a h if she was honest with herself she knew she&039;d already crossed that bridge He had betrayed her to the police He had tried to choke her into sub her down, eventually, unless she finished him off first -

No

She squeezed her eyes shut Then opened the and she needed to see the road No She would not kill her brother She&039;d come close, definitely She would have impaled him on that spike, if he hadn&039;t said what he did If he hadn&039;t er clear away for a second, made her think rationally for the first tiain

"I&039; to hurt you," she told Lucy "So don&039;t be so scared, alright? Just don&039;t be so scared of ie hit the steering wheel again This time it bent "None of this is what I would have chosen Do you believe that?"

Lucy shrugged Her face was still buried in the seat

"I guess it looks bad, if you don&039;t know everything that happened to me If you can&039;t see that I didn&039;t have any choices at all"

She turned the music down, a little The darkness threatened to flood back into her soul but she couldn&039;t think straight, couldn&039;t fight her anger with the bass line throbbing like that, with the dru out the rhythm of her accelerated heartbeat "It&039;s al to do and then I&039;o somewhere no one will ever find me"

Lucy stirred "Where&039;s that?" she asked