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“Mostly just pictures I took of ht after a particularly bad fight, I had to go to the hospital because I knew he’d done dae that I couldn’t treat myself I went to a hospital in Maryland because I knew they ht call the cops even if I told them not to I convinced them not to, but asked them to take pictures and document my injuries-”

“What kind of injuries?” I asked

Ethan’s eyes flashed to mine and he shook his head

“What kind of injuries, Ethan?” I asked, softeningBut he refused to keep looking at me

“He broke my arm and two ribs I needed stitches here,” Ethan …rectally…but it didn’t stop on its own so I orried he’d done e than usual…”

As Ethan’s voice fell off, I felt et out of there

“Ronan, I think Ethan needs a break,” I cut in before Ethan could continue his story

Ronan’s eyeson with ood idea Ethan, do you want to go check on Lucy?”

Ethan nodded “Yes, thank you”

“How about we ested

I ed to keep control of myself as I nodded I was out of the room like a shot as soon as the other men stood up I had one destination in rateful that I’d been in the house enough to knohere things were

Ronan and Seth’s hoe, but it didn’t s I needed in the moment One, it was in the basement which affordedthat could take the brunt ofI didn’t even need an ie of Eric’s face, which I had yet to actually see but that I vaguely remembered from the news reports years earlier, to spurNo, all I needed was the ie of Ethan’s battered body and the sound of his broken sobs as I’d held hi shower