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Instead of going up to my apartment, I rush past him and down the stairs When I reach the bottoht back up and risk running into hiround for stray papers he s and leaves, I ford anymore I’ll meet different people under different circumstances than I’m used to and need to learn how to be a norers And nomy secrets out theI ht to watch hteen years of ?

I peer around at the parking lot for her black BMW The car is nowhere in sight, but a black Cadillac with tinted s and chrome rims is parked near the curb at the front of the apartment It reminds ht Patrol cars, they were called

Could ed cars to watch et to find out

My paranoia has already set in, though

I sprint back to my apartment By the ti toward hyperventilation

I inhale and exhale deeply, trying to get oxygen into s, but thenow Froether soon, I’ to black out If I ever did lose consciousness when I was undermy head into a bathtub full of ice water As a for the weakness of anxiety, he’d hold me under until I’d almost drowned

"Fuck" The roohtheaded and woozy "I’asp "So me into a deep, panic-induced slumber

Chapter 4

Secrets, Secrets Everywhere

Ryler

I’ve been living in a small, two bedroo I own is the mattress on the floor, soave me for my nineteenth birthday That’s all I was allowed to take with er and drove to Lara, per the instructions of Elderman