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After an hour of packing, she felt she was ready Looking up from the dresser, a man stood in the doorway “OH!” She jumped with a start
Walker walked in from the darkened hallway “It’s me, Riley”
“Shit! I remember it now You are just like Harris!”
Walker slowed his walk “I am not”
“Yes, the sneaking up on people The appearing and disappearing! It’s fucking spooky!”
He laughed “Okay well, it’s in our training We ht always be that way” His expression sobered “Riley, I have to talk to you”
She shut the empty drawer “Well, make it quick, I have to leave soon” She went over and zipped up her suitcase
“He’s gone”
Her eyes slowly rose up from the suitcase to his somber face “What?”
“Harris He’s gone”
Sing heavy, she sat down on her bed, her heart pounding in her ears “Like gone as in…”
Walker’s eyes widened as he rushed over to the bed and grasped her hands “No, no He’s alive”
Her breath whooshed out of her as she had trouble speaking “W-why do you do that? J-just blurt shit out! No preaht a panic attack
“He left the mountain yesterday”
She blinked her eyes at hi back”
“I don’t think he did” Walker patted her hand
“What? I’m confused”
“Well, you knew theto him several times about you and he shut hts I’ve never seen hiry He maybe spoke five whole words to me the entire time”
“I don’t understand, Walker”
He shrugged “Remember what he said in the copter the day we flew off?”
Her eyes rounded “Yes! That 550…700 number code shit I meant to ask you—”
“Well, I said I would be back in two days He replied he was leaving in three I knew then he was done with the mountain I think he just assumed that you ith Adam and that was that”
Furious, she stood up “Why didn’t you tell me?”
Walker shook his head “When he said it in code, itit between us We have a code of honor, Riley”
“Fuck that code of honor shit! You should have told hed as sadness filled her “I’ve been broken up with Adam for almost 6 weeks”
Walker shook his head “Neither of us knew that”
Her breathing sped up, as she felt angry now “He didn’t even give us a chance?” She re fear she had all this time It was because he never intended to keep her