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Therefore, I needed to get real about what in the fuck I was going to do Harris was right So to die before this was over Fuck, Pete had already died Funny how I kept forgetting about that It showed how little he really meant to me I hadn’t even asked Cristian what he did with his body For all I kneas rotting in the basement still

My choices were not my own I had innocent people to think about My best friend and her son

Jessica had been blowing upher calls because I was overcoer she didn’t even know she was in

I’d been sending texts to appease her, but she infor to my apartment after work to do a ‘wellness check’

The aparter lived in That had ite, a lot of

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I cared about Jessica and Aiden, though And if I didn’t give her soet infinitely more complicated As if that was possible

I had to protect her from the truth of this In an ideal world, I would push both Jessica and Aiden away, make sure they were as far away from me, and more importantly Cristian, as possible But I was selfish I wasn’t quite ready to lose oodness To sanity

So I finally got back to Jessica, scheduling a dinner with her tonight

To tell her that I was engaged

To the oing to leave out was that Pete had sold me to a mob boss to pay a debt, and saidher and Eli towith a detective I didn’t entirely trust to take hied to had brutally tortured andme in the first place

The truth was out of the question, but I still wasn’t entirely sure what lies I’d spew to appease her They’d come to me at the time

Slipping arded , down to ht foron my body I didn’t even own that Every limb, every inch of my skin was his This realization prickled at my skin, cut at it like razors Like a thousand tiny cuts slicing over my entire body