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Right to the point I liked that in an old acquaintance "Yes His wife iswith other things" She smiled sadly, and I realized she’d seen the report of the carjacking "Are you okay?"

"Oh, that?" I waved a dises He was a perfect gentleman the whole time he held me at knife point"

Suddenly her eyes sparkled with curiosity "Will you tellthat happened? Were you scared? Did he threaten you?"

After a soft chuckle, I asked, "Watch a lot of criet out much"

"Not at all Can you tella deep breath, she said, "We dated for about a year We were young and it all got serious pretty fast, but raduated It infuriated Nathan" She shook her head, re back "I mean infuriated him that they butted in to what he saw as none of their business His reaction was so bizarre that it knocked me out ofon In the year that we’d been dating, I’d lost almost all my friends, hardly ever saw my family, and rarely went anywhere without hiled for the right word "--well, suffocating"

"I hate to say this, but you aren’t the first person to tell ainst him?"

"He used to tease me about ould happen to me if I ever left hih"

"Can you givea threat like that as so either of the like, ‘You know if you ever leave me, they’ll find your lifeless body at the bottom of Otero Canyon’"

I offered herreally hard to see the hu in agreement, "I know it sounds horrible, but the way he’d say it, it was just funny Then after ed He started pressuring me to elope, asked me over and over how I could let theht threats He became unstable, and it dawned on me that he’d always been unstable, I’d just learned what to say and what not to say around him"

"Did he hurt you?"

"Me?" she asked, surprised "No Not s"

My brows knitted in question