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She just continued to cry as she looked into my eyes

"I promise you" I looked up at Sissy and said, "Will you stay with her?"

She quickly wiped away her tears and sat down next to Courtney

I turned to head back to the library when Sissy called after me "Reed?"

I turned around and looked at her

"Please don’t let ave her a weak smile I spun around and headed back toward the

As I walked by the kitchen, Tyler was arguing with a few of his friends "Just letand o"

My heart broke for him His fiancée and his sister were both victims of this fucker

The library door was open, and when I walked in, I saw Noah sitting in a chair as Steve was talking to souy looked up atout Steve turned and saw uy passed bylook I save a quick nod in return

"Reed, shut and lock the door, please," Steve said

I glanced over at Noah He had a terrified look on his face, and I almost wanted to smile I did as Steve had asked I stood back away froot too close to the asshole, I’d just want to beat the shit out of hiether and looked at Steve before glaring back at Noah

"What in the fuck are you s at?" I asked Noah

Noah’s smile faded as he looked everywhere but at Steve

"I want to knohat you did to ritted teeth as he sat down in front of Noah

"Nothing she didn’t want," Noah bit back

I startedmy way over to him "You motherfucker! She was sixteen, for fuck’s sake!"

Steve held up his hand to stopto ive oing to ask you again What did you do toa word

I cleared my throat and said, "I knohat he did to her, Steve"

Without ever taking his eyes off of Noah, he said, "Tell me"

I sed hard and took a deep breath "Court just turned sixteen, and Noah had asked her to the pro to have sex with her because he saw the way she would look at hiot older He threatened her by saying he would hurt Tyler, you, Marie, and worse yet…he would go after Sissy" I stopped talking when I saw Steve o on for?"

"Three an shaking I fought like hell to hold back my tears I tried to place myself in his shoes, but I couldn’t As ine how Steve felt

I sucked in another breath and continued, "One night, Courtney went down to your gun safe She got out a pistol and waited for him When he came into her room, she told him she would kill hiht, she would She toldover, and Tyler would instead stay at Noah’s house when his parents were out of town"