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He kissed the top of irl”

A s all ainst him “Love you”

“Love you, baby”

Chapter Five

Rory

“COME ON, COME ON,” I muttered to myself as I searched my room for my keys I was already ten minutes late for class, and if I didn’t find the da to be even later “Shit Shit Shit!”

All I needed was for my asshole professor to call ain But that as going to happen if I didn’t get out the door and park my ass in the front row of his class in the next five lanced aroundI had just misplaced them My bed was a mess because I had overslept and hadn’t even bothered to make it I had clothes scattered everywhere, aed everything in my rush to find my keys, while the top of htmare come to life

I had searched the entire roo My keys had either gotten up and walked off, or…

Anger twisted in rabbed ed as I hurried to the back of the house where my father’s home office was

It wasn’t the first tifed up with his trying to control me I enty years old now, not seventeen, damn it Ired

A laugh I knew belonged to my father was quickly followed by a voice I was familiar with The DA,

Royce Campbell, was my father’s best friend He always seemed to be around, and I couldn’t stand him

It took a few seconds for what Royce was saying to register, but when it did, I froze several feet from my father’s office door

“Reid’s truck is a pile of ash right now,” the DA was saying, an ae “The sheriff said there was nothing but bones left when he got there earlier”

So inside of me squeezed hard, and suddenly I couldn’t breathe I didn’t even understand what the creep was talking about, but I knew it couldn’t be good Creswell Springs was a pretty small town, so it wasn’t like there were , but only one of them owned a truck as far as I knew