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“I did it,” she whispered Suddenly she grinned brightly and pointed at the target “Look! I did it!”

I couldn’t help but crack a set closer to the center”

She did as I told her and I watched with a certain areat pride in knowing that she was i her improve her shots one by one, but even as I helped her, I couldn’t get her words out of my head Maybe I was depressed

Chapter Three

We stayed at the shooting range until the sun started to set When the darkness s so we could head back Chloe closed the bed of the truck and looked over at me

“We’ve been gone about five hours?” she asked

“Yeah Just about”

She sighed and shook her head “I wonder how iven Mari”

I shed I knew my brother had one hell of a sweet tooth and it see to instill that same vice into his child

“If he’s loaded her full of sugar, you should let hilass of wine,” I suggested

She grinned and nudged ht just take you up on that offer”

Asco another person around, and it was even enuinely want to spend tiood friend I could only hope that our friendship wouldn’t go the same way mine and Ryan’s had

We got into the truck and I started down the dirt road that would eventually take us to back to the little gated community we lived in I hesitated to call it a compound because that just sounded cultish and this was far from a cult We were fae anyone who said otherwise

The radio was playing soed to hu with the tune but I couldn’t reave a sudden, violent shudder and I cursed under ht it to a stop and slid out to look at the wheel Apparently we’d hit glass or a nail and the tire had given out on us

I groaned and kicked the deflated rubber, walking back over to the cab to get my cell phone We were only a few miles frohts coe sense of foreboding began to bubble in ers brushed the phone the first of the gun shots rang out