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“I’m sorry about your mom-”

“I need to focus, Ethan” The co froht have hated what his mother had done, but he hadn’t hated her

I remained silent for the rest of the drive and only half-listened as he called Ronan and told him what had happened I couldn’t hear Ronan’s side of the conversation, but based on Cain’s clipped one-word answers, I doubted anything the otherRonan to have Daisy s to make sure the cops were notified, but he still refused to talk to et back to the hotel in West Virginia Even though we ended up in a different room, the layout was the same as the one we’d been in

Cain disappeared into the bathrooot inside I heard the water in the shower come on Disappointment flared that he hadn’t wanted me to join him, even just to be with him to provide comfort, but I pushed the useless emotion away I cleaned up the little bit of blood that had sprayed on ed into a clean shirt and a pair of sweats It was close to dinner tiry and I doubted Cain was either so I didn’t order any rooe of the bed and waited, but it was a good twenty minutes before I finally heard the bathroom door open

If I’d thought Cain would be cal To someone who didn’t know hih to see the telltale signs that he was agitated The way his hands fisted, the tiny tick in his jaw, the way he sed hard over and over He ignored

“Cain, talk to me,” I said softly, but he didn’t respond

When I went to stand next to him, he jerked away as soon as I touched his hand to stop hi

“Don’t,” he snapped “I’ht now,” he said angrily

Ignoring his stateht?”

“No, I don’t know that!” he shouted “What I know is that one there!”

“Yes, she would,” I countered “You and I both knoould have killed her the second she refused to give him what he wanted – when she finally stood up to him Today, tomorrow, six months from now! You said it yourself, he was sick! What they had wasn’t love It was obsession It nership It was hi her to make him feel powerful and in control”