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322. The Reckoning
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2024-10-29 19:42:56~ JESSE ~
I sat at the table, Cazz right alongside me, holding my hand under the tabletop, glaring at my father who was slumped on the other side.
He’d been beaten. And I couldn’t find an ounce of compassion for him.
The two guards that brought him out stood, one on either side, their faces twisted into contempt. But my father didn’t even look at them.
He just stared at me—drank me in. At first I thought his desperation had to be faked. But then I remembered, he was being painfully honest.
I’d tested it.
“Did you kill Mom?”
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