eters
I refused the driver the Phelps family sent and called
sing in on me from all sides. It felt col
ted as a nursery. The door was closed
against the wall. I made my way to the bedroom and collapsed onto
eone. I need
ed Dustin's number, my heart
il. It rang once, then the call en
in would never do that. We had been each
result. The call was
pine. I switched to my messaging app, my thumb h
's when
our old messages, was a blue bubble. A message I had ne
don't talk for a while. Harri
an cold. I read the words again a
would never, ever sa
topped calling. Why he was hanging up on me now. He thought I had chosen my
his? The answer was i
d the access and t
t not love me. He was actively, maliciously working to isolate me from the on
brother and me, which I had attributed to his demanding job at the DEA. The unanswere
. Harrison hadn't just built me a cage; he had systemati
tic message. *Dustin, that wasn't me!
exclamation point appea
end. You have been b
oc
ther had b
y last refuge, my only support. He had made me an
cold frame. The fear was different this time. It wasn't t
has just realized her jailer has n
g else began to stir in the ashes
had broken me.
ow everything.
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