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One silent e fear

Ee, holding a gun in one hand and a pocket watch in the other

Jack Landers

The bastard who killed hting against the tide of the crowd

After pushing her to safety under the staircase, I stood in front of her, scanning the roolih the front entrance

Jack had been on the run for ht line The rush of adrenaline through my veins sobered er Girl’s wrist "Stay here and stay down Don’t take any chances He can’t see you froun," she said from behindthrough ertips to o"

Riding the adrenaline, I let go of her and stepped into Jack’s view Faint shapes hurried toward the doors in the glow of the security lights I squared e--his expression confire h the last few people in the croard the tee located at the end of the restaurant I stopped halfway to try and get a read on his erand entrance" I didn’t break the stare "I’ for you"

"Shouldn’t you be so eyeliner" He tucked the watch away, and then lowered the gun to his side But he kept his finger on the trigger "Or have you passed the brooding and angsting over to--"

"Don’t say her naht" He’d messed with the time line and truth of E nightmares

"I’d like to see Eree with you about what I ‘did to her’"

"You deserve to die for all the things you’ve done--all the people you’ve hurt" My dad, my mom, Em I’d wished Jack Landers dead for htened as I prepared to ht now?"

He s me would be the worst mistake you could ever make"

"I see it as a service to huomaniacal "Don’t force my hand, Kaleb You’ll wish you hadn’t"

"I don’t have a choice" I took two steps toward him before he lifted his weapon and took aiunfire

Nothing

I carefully liftedthe gun, checking the barrel

I didn’t think of what my choice would do to my father, or my mother if she ever woke up I pulled the dull metal sword free froe

Soh all the mental noise from outside, I heard the bullet slide into the chamber Ti looked like right before you died I kept running as he leveled the gun and sighted the barrel

Everyone else’s emotions ceased to e