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He straightened in his seat, his hands gripping the wheel so tightly that his knuckles hite "She what? How? What the fuck, Maisie?" he ranted, reaching to grab my phone from my hand
I shook my head and quickly moved it out of his reach "I could call it Maybe then I’ll recognise the voice and everything will be over, I can tell the police, and they can investigate and arrest the at him for his opinion
His opinion was clear across his face though, I could see it clearly enough He was horrified, totally against the idea by the look of it Again er hovered over the call button "Don’t, Maisie, for Christ sake don’t," he cried, reaching for the phone again
I pushed his hand away quickly as he sla us to a halt just as ere about to cross a bridge over the river I was thrown forward against my seatbelt fro and aching fro?" I shouted, pulling at ood; the quick stopping ht acrossout his hand for it
Car horns blasted behind us where ere blocking our side of the road "Luke, people can’t get past," I observed, noddingup behind us pretty quickly
He shook his hand in front of ulped and pressed the call button, knowing that as soon as he took my phone off of me he would delete the number so I couldn’t call it His eyes ide as I put the phone tothe little tinkle where the phone connected to the line Almost immediately a bell like sound ca over the back of the seat to the footwell behind aze up to Luke only to see he had his eyes closed, his head hung dejectedly as the bell sound continued in the background,on the radio
I frowned, confused "What’s that?" I asked, looking around for the source of the noise I twisted aardly inthe other junk out of the way My hand touched cool, vibrating plastic, so I gripped it and pulled it into the front It was the cell phone that had fallen out of Luke’s pocket last night ere ain now in the daylight, I realised that it wasn’t actually Luke’s cell phone It was one that I had never seen before, a cheap Nokia one and not so like Luke would buy at all
What puzzledon the screen as it continued to vibrate inetic, pained expression covered his face as realisation hit me like a bucket of cold water The nu Luke? My heart sank as my blood seemed to turn to ice inseeulped, his le with his words as the phone rang and rang in the background "Maisie…" he croaked, shaking his head slowly, his eyes not leaving mine
No No No No!
It felt as if a knife pierced intome slowly
"It was you? But why?" I whispered, horrified, mortified, hurt, and crushed because not for one second had I ever suspected that the person I loved would do this toat my seatbelt as my heart dropped down into my stomach I’d never felt so let down or disappointed in all my life But I just couldn’t understand it, I couldn’t take it in Why would Luke want to do that toto hurthis eyes as he raised his elbow and pressed down his door lock, locking us both into the car Before he did that I hadn’t even thought about exiting the car, but now that I kneas locked inwhy he would want to keep me in the car Would he actually want to hurt ested?