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Frankie’s fuzzy bunny slippers were exchanged for a pair of purple dragon ones, cos Her place was littered with things from our past The life before I was the Boardroo to fit in A fra on her back a on her ht my eye Small and weathered all these years later, but it was here I peered over at Frankie, as staring e of concern, not annoyance like it usually did

“Are you finally ready to stop living in the past?” Frankie asked, putting the envelope on her lap

“Are you?” I asked, pointing at a pressed flower on her bookshelf To anyone else it was just that, but I knehere it was really froe frolanced up at the shelf and her cheeks turned beet red

“That doesn’t have anything to do with this”

“Just tell me what happened with Grim”

“I’ll tell you what happened with Griers wrapped around it

I stared at the envelope for a long time and she shook it at me Part of me wished I’d never asked her to help o I couldn’t stop until there was vengeance for Beth I knew so Her death wasn’t an accident

“If you don’t want it,” she said, leaning back in her chair I snatched it from her hand and slid the papers out Black lines covered most of the document It had been redacted But there was one piece of inforh Place of death “Route”—that word stuck out at the beginning of the description

“Where’s the rest?”

“That’s all they had” She leaned back against her couch, tapping her phone against her thigh

“I need it all, Frankie,” I said, rubbing my sweaty palms on my pants

“Killian, I don’t know if you want to do this What good does it do? It doesn’t bring her back”

“Closure, Frankie If I can see what really happened I’ll finally have sohtit all in black and white would change things for me

“I’ll see if I can find the un-redacted version Do you still wantup and down

“Yes” I said, crushing the paper in h and nodded her head