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Wade’s lips thinned Sorown-ass et involved with a vulnerable sixteen-year-old girl

"He walked ht after that He was at the diner every single day I worked I thought it ildly roirl who’d never been loved, who’d never had anyone who cared, Tho I’d ever dreas I yearned for and then he made them happen It wasn’t until it was too late that I understood hoas able to manipulate me so easily," she whispered

"What do you mean?" Wade asked in a low voice

She closed her eyes "Most people would think I’ me since you knohat Tori, Ra snaked up Wade’s spine

"He’s psychic," she said baldly "He can see into soht they ever had Worse, not only does he have the ability to read minds,his bidding He can plant a suggestion or an i but obey"

Wade’s eyes narrowed "Is that what he did to you, Eliza? Did he have you under his control?"

She looked on the verge of tears again Her eyes were swauilt

"He didn’t have to," she said, bitterness lacing every word "I would have done anything for hi"

"You didn’t kill those women," Wade said forcefully

This time the tears not only welled, they fell in endless streaks down her cheeks

"But I did, Wade I did"

Wade shook his head "No fucking way You’ll never convince me you killed anyone, least of all innocent women"

"Thomas was--is--obsessed with ree If anything his obsession has only grown He loved me or rather his sick, twisted version of love and I believed him God, I believed him Worse, I wanted to believe it I didn’t want to believe he was a monster capable of such evil I just wanted to beloved"