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Raize showed un after I put the clip in it He ht thumb to lock over my left hand “What’s the point of the list?” he asked

“They’re people I’et the chance”

His body froze as his eyes shifted to mine “Where do you have this list?”

“It’s in my head”

He stepped back, putting ht position Then he stood behind ainst my face “Am I on the list?”

“No If you were, I wouldn’t be telling you about it”

“Who’s on the list?”

My attention went back to the gun “Aood to shoot?”

“Keep your left hand on the gun Don’t break your hold Keep your stance Be ready for the kickback Shoot when you’re ready”

I shot

I didn’t need to go through the steps he’d just givenfor the worst in this life, and because of that, I didn’t move Not an inch I felt the kickback It reverberated up my arainst uns being shot

But I had not been ready for the eh me

I’d gone overthat list a reality Maybe that’s why I’d told Raize about it

“Bronksi’s on the list,” I said softly

His dark and penetrating eyes found mine “We can make that happen”

Yes Right I told him I wanted to kill a man, and he said “we can make that happen” I was so far over the line now that I wondered why I’d ever drawn a line It didn’tthere

“That last building, Oscar’s, it’s on the list, too,” I confessed, my voice quiet “I want to blow it up”

His eyes narrowed I kneas re my freak-out “We can make that happen, too”

A wave of eh , but it was so ht now that I couldn’t move a muscle Not One Muscle

Raize’s hand went toon in your head?”

I went back to re about the sex I used to have That was a long tio”

His fingers dug into ned behind ainst me, almost perfectly

He used to have sex regularly, too I’d seen the wos And his stint was a lot o, probably three years ago That would e”