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Prologue

~Quinn~

Five Years Ago

I ease the sexy sports car through the turn, and then hit the gas, sears as the Porsche picks up speed

It’s su shadows through the trees as I zoom faster and faster away from the city on a country road

Away from my family

Away from death

I take a deep breath, blow it out, and then shift gears again, er

Driving fast is the best way to clear s, or even fucking a beautiful woman

This is the only time that I can truly empty my mind and just live

But my sister, Darcy, can’t

And now my father can’t

The pain is swift, leaving me breathless and sweaty, so I speed up further, despite the deep shadows and harsh light froet, but the fucked-up thing is, I can’t forget

Darcy and Dad are both gone, and it’s left me with an ache I didn’t expect, and a hole that I can’t fill

Even while driving

Red and blue lights start flashing behind me

“Fuck,” I mutter as I slow the car, then ease it over to the shoulder I have istration in my hand when the officer approacheson his sidearm

“Good evening,” he says

“Hello”

“I pulled you over because you were driving one hundred ten miles an hour in a fifty-five zone”

I take another deep breath but can’t ive a rat’s ass

“Did you know that you were going that fast?”

“No, sir,” I lie

“Have you been drinking?”

“No, sir” This one isn’t a lie

“I’ to ask you to step out of the car”

I frown up at him “I have my license here”

“I see it Step out of the car, please”

I unfasten my seat belt, then cli I know better than to start so with a cop I don’t need to add toarrested