eters
he lock about to seal my fate. With the last ounce
er the roaring in my ears. "In your heart... our
nds pressed against my abdomen, the blood
erned or guilty. It was cold, annoyed, as if I had just com
ered over the bloodstain, and his brow furrowed, not with worry, but with
but a tiny, pathetic part of me
voice, calm and steady, was laced
so drama
The world seemed
e were discussing the weather. "It's not
sto
mp of
g shell. The life I had cherished, the future I had prayed for, the tiny secr
usion I had ever built about this man, a
from me, his back straight and unforgiving. He adjusted his perfectly knotted tie, a sm
o claw at his face. But I coul
s the real Harrison Phelps. Not the hero on TV, but the monster wh
k back. He di
walked out into the n
ed shut. The wo
vision blurred at the edges. My phone was still clutche
cation to the only other person in the world who might care. My brother,
led 911 again, whispering my address to the op
ess closed in, my last thought wasn't
iet, cold r
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