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When I lift my head, Clara’s completely pale and she holds on to her elbows like she’s about to break She gently rocks back and forth "I didn’t know that still haunted you"

Every second of every day "There are soet, but, like you, I’m cursed"

A rumble of a motorcycle and I stand Razor pulls in front of aze meets mine, I know the answer to his silent question

Clara steps toward me "No, Bre"

Unfortunately for her "This isn’t your decision to make"

RAZOR

BREANNA GLANCES AROUND irl hoe, and I’d share how much this means to me, but we don’t have time for my emotions We have problerin, I can tell she means it

"It’s small" But pride leaks out I could never be ashamed of the place Mom loved

"Bigger isn’t better" It’s a reference to her fa her hand and draw her forward "Want to see ers with ht, and Breanna takes in the narrow roon of Terror banner, the dresser and theover it She touches the pictures taped on the wall Most of thees of life There’s two of me and Dad and at the top is one of me and Mom

"She didn’t coer "No" I’rateful that Breanna doesn’t press for more, because she already knows more than she should

"The code helped?" she asks

"Yeah" A sickening sensation crawls along my insides "It helped" And I haven’t helped her "This stuff with Kyle--we’re going to figure it out"

Breanna’s pursing her lips like she’s about to disagree when the sound of a ers in her hair and her eyes shoot to the closet as if she’s searching for a hiding place "A school Your dad is going to freak I did not et you in trouble"

I slip into her personal space, circle an ar of worries froue across her lips, she sucks in a breath and molds completely into me Her sweet scent overwhelms me, and when she eases her soft curves into my body, I become very aware of the bed less than a foot froly release her "I’m not in trouble, you’re fine in pen alone"

"How do you know it’s him?"

Because I asked to see hi "I just do"