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"I’asp Then co that he had to check the display to make sure his phone hadn’t dropped the call

"Moruffly "Did you hear what I said?"

"I heard" Her voice was so quiet he barely made out her response

"Okay Well, that’s it That’s why I called I’ll talk to you la--"

"Don’t you dare hang up on me!" Missy roared

Noas the one stunned into silence "Oh All right Are we going to talk about it then?"

"Are you fking kiddingyour brother, and you think we’re not going to talk about it?"

He’d never heard his irl voice was sharper than the blade of his Bowie knife, each word oozing with red-hot fury

Seth gulped "I figured you wouldn’t want to You never want to talk about hiht Jesus You’re right, I never talk about hiet why you can’t It’s hard for ave me for what happened, but I needed to say it out loud Just once I needed to apologize because I never apologized all those years ago I never told you how sorry I was for--"

"Shut up, Seth"

He frowned, annoyed by the interruption "I’m not finished I need you to know that I accept full responsibility for--"

"Shut the fk up, Seth!"

His te spin

"You are not to blame for what happened to your brother," Missy Masterson announced "It is not your fault that sick son of a bitch got his hands on Ada" Another gasp ca yourself all these years?" Now she sounded like she was crying "Oh baby, it wasn’t your fault"

"But…but you…"

"I made you believe that it was?" Horror reverberated from her voice

"No, but…you couldn’t look at me after it happened And at the funeral, you wouldn’t meet my eyes when I…" He trailed off, confused as hell

"I couldn’t look at you because I didn’t want to see the accusation in your eyes"

His confusion skyrocketed "What are you talking about?"

"It wasn’t your fault Adam died It was mine"