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Chapter 43

Author: Skylar
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I inhale and slowly exhale. My left eye’s twitching. How much longer does this part of the game last?

When I don’t reply, she feels compelled to argue the point. “It’s only the truth. If you don’t like it, that’s on you.”

“Okay. If you say so.”

“I’m not feeling bad because we broke up, if that’s what you think.”

“Fine. Where are you? I’ll bring you home. Smooth things over. I’ll set you up in your own place, and I'll get you a new car.”

I’m lying through my teeth, and she’s not even listening.

She’s stuck on how our relationship started. It’s like when I need the numbers from facts from Dimitri and he's giving me nothing to go with.

I know her perfectly.

Better than she knows herself. She’s a tangled ball of self-doubt, foolish pride, dumb hope, brilliance, and blind affection. And I’m obsessed.

I need her back.

I drop my voice, lace it with menace. “I know what’s going to happen if you don’t come home. You’ll be found. There will be no conversation. You won’t even feel the bullet i
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