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"In revenge for you killing his father," I spat back

"Touché, Miss Evans I suppose you subscribe to the Old Testaeance of an eye for an eye like your former boyfriend did" When I didn’t answer hiaze roamed around "You have a lovely classroom In a way, it reminds me of your mother’s"

My heartbeat shuddered to a stop and then restarted "Excuse ht"

"But how is it possible that you knew my mother?"

"You see this is where our sht rade I don’t rearten and second," I el caain "Yourabout all the snot-nosed brats she had to teach, she focused on Andy She couldn’t sees fro She didn’t seem to understand that I subscribed to a very old-school form of discipline for my children So she turned the case over to the local CPS I couldn’t have the around in my life, so we disappeared We hopped fro too far fro that could be said for your ht I’d put enough ties when I h school"

Slowly the pieces of the puzzle began to fall into place "Was he one of my father’s students?"

"My,your oldabout hoas so worried about one of his students And when he ot a call from your father He wanted answers and reainst me My usual methods of persuasion didn’t see to you"

Closing ine what that call was like formattered more to him in the world than his wife and kids But at the same time, he had a passion deep within hiht, even if it meant the potential for those he loved to be hurt

"In the end, I was fucking tired of being forced to run, so I decided to take a different course of action"

His words caused a shiver to run from the top of my head down my spine "But they died in a car accident," I said laht on by faulty brakes and an uno off that ravine"

My hand flew toinmy bodyto get loose It was overwhel The entire last ten years of my life were based on a lie My parents hadn’t died in an accident They’d been murdered Their deaths had been coldly calculated by the piece of shit who stood in front of ums to any of his coworkers, so no one knew that he had almost blown the lid on me, which would have affected my club Of course, I hated that your kid brother was in the car I never intended for you two to get hurt"