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"An eency…" His stare doesn’t leave my eyes, the hard look in his one that worries me He is mad Doesn’t believe me Doesn’t, froures thatpoint today, at aacross the parking lot

I look into his face and say the only thing I can, a sentence that we h

"If you do love o hoiant "START" button and let the roar of the engine drown out his response I can’t listen Can’t know Can’t allow hier and ht now, I need every bit of strength I have

I carefully pull forward, out of the space and out of the lot, leaving Jere alone, in a sea of cheap cars

Dairlfriend

CHAPTER 81

WITH MYSTERYBARBIE’S CALL, everything changed Those fantasies that I hide from, that I push out the door with every ounce of my underdeveloped muscles? I suddenly need theo back down that path I am not afraid, I a up I knoithout hesitation, ill be in my heart when I fully unlock that door The darkness has not disappeared It, like that tree in Florida, has flourished despite le over the last two months has only fed this iblets of freedothened

FtypeBaby and I break each other in well We hit Bass Pro, Lowe’s, and Hoh to point me in the direction of an army-surplus pawnshop I put the top down and head north, reaching the destination far too quickly for my newly freed tastes I leave her in a front spot and push open the pawnshop’s door, the weight of it enough to work irl with a steel-reinforced apartment door, that says a lot

I know, the minute my tennis shoe hits the concrete floor, that I have coas le aspect of uns

Handcuffs

Nunchakus