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"I wish I’d listened to you about Andy"

"Well, I hope I’ht about Finn this time He was a sweet one and boy was he stuck on you"

After she leaves, I sit on the edge of the bed Suddenly it see alone before but seeing Finn like that has leftthe locks on the front and back door, I slip into the bathroom and remove my clothes I run the water as hot as I can stand it and then get in The steae of the tub My eyes close and I let the tears flow

What happened between us? Where did things go so wrong? It feels like a double betrayal because after hoful he was to , over the last feeeks he’s been so different The man who helped me clean and waited outside just so I wouldn’t have to walk to ht cannot be the same man who just terrified me

I look at the faint white lines on the back ofto one of his colleagues at his coht, he backhandedabout that tireat between us but that had er rationalize the things he did and said to me The ways he put ht, for the first tiain Finn has taken awayI can easily forgive hi, it has power over you I knew Rissa had rip was until she didn’t come ho if anyone there can tell ive out that kind of inforive out infor if anyone there has actually talked to her today"

I let out a groan when the person on the other end hangs up "Da their jobs but that’s little consolation when she could be hurt soht I al happened to her, no one would even know to notifyin the s, I’d eventually given up and come back here Her car was still parked on the street outside of her office It was like she’d gone to work and then vanished into thin air

I pull out ain "Jonah, I need the car"

I walk into my office and then pull out the file Patrick Stevens assembled on Rissa lastabout her which hy I had information about her business partners But there was one person that would always kno to find her

I run e until I find the address for Gloria Blake Then I take the elevator down to the first floor By the ti up to the curb I get in and tell hinize Daphne’s sporty little green car Rissa must be here

I look at Jonah "I’ into so this may take a while"

He nods "Of course, sir"

I climb out and then walk up the driveway The front beds are planted with cheerful pansies that add wild splashes of color to the otherwise plain yard I knock on the door and then step back to wait The door swings open