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react.
Only when it was over did he look at me.
“If you walk away now,” he said quietly,
“you won’t be safe.”
That was the truth.
“And if I don’t?” I asked.
He leaned back slightly.
“Then we finish it properly.”
That was the moment it became real.
Not fear.
Not suspicion.
A plan.
The Return
That night—
They came back.
The sound of the car pulling in at 3 a.m. echoed continue reading …
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