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I looked at him, and I saw the little boy who beamed with pride and stuck out his chest, once upon a time siht that little boy would become this man that could threaten his own father so easily?

“No s are about yourthe truth—Calliope’s betraying you Do you think today was an accident? Do you really think that you started to lose face theto help you with one hand and destroying you with the other She won’t just take you down; it will take down the whole faot out of the car

“You don’t see…no one tois Mrs Callahan, my wife, and the woman who stood beside me when everyone else left”

“Stood beside you? Really? Then as your business burns, where is she right now?” I asked him

“I do not answer to you Nor a I am not a child in need of your protection anymore, Liam So, stay the fuck out of my car and take your shit with you”

He tossed the phone atto close the door before walking back over to the driver’s side Just like that, they pulled back onto the main road and down the street

I stood there for aback into the trooper My heart rate rising, I sla wheel

“He hates us,” Mel whispered fro there

“We already knew that,” I said, turning off the co, too

“He hates us so much that he won’t listen about that woht he’d be the one to be blinded like this”

“As long as we told hibetrayed by a lover”

“And you know that how?”

I glanced up into the rearview mirror to see only redness in her eyes What caused it? Lack of sleep? Anger? Or tears? She’d never admit to the last one However, she’d spent all of her ti every move Calliope had made since we had found out about her

“If he can’t do it, we’re going to have to,” she whispered

“And then he reallyit to the side