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"Like you kept my mother safe?"

His expression hardens iain"

"Why, because you let her be killed?"

He pounds his fists on the table,all the silver ju back from the table, ready to flee But then I realize I’o

"Dinner’s over" And then he stands up and walks a few steps before turning back to , and the more you want to know, the more likely you are to take them"

Chapter Twelve

Harper

"I’m not done," I tell the server who comes to take my plate I will be damned if I will be sent back tome dessert and then leave me alone to eat in peace"

"Yes, ma’am," the server closest to nals her co-worker and they walk away

I eat every last bite of my shark steak, rave; la h

OK So ot the upper hand I’ or where we’re going But… I have to think up a but, because I need one right now I need some inner reassurance that this is not over yet

But I’irl who left here last year I’m different And I don’t believe half that stuff he says about James I accept that James can’t be all there He’s responsible for too many atrocities to not be affected by it

But James was lucid and in control one hundred percent of the tiether Isn’t that all that matters? He was not indecisive or confused So even if some of that stuff is true about his psyche, does it matter if it doesn’t affect him in his day to day life?

But Harper, the reasonable me points out You were only really with him for a few days It’s one s of us

Except he killed Sasha

Thatmy napkin to my mouth to stifle ether for a short while, but ere like family Why would he bother to care about her if his objective was to shoot her in the end? I don’t understand that