3: A N

a P

, not knowin

ight to save me from ending my life? And a

t all. I was a

to come with me," he said, calm and commanding. He wasn't

ho you are, then get the hell out of he

turned back

e. Living is already

again, but he

u're doing? You're ma

re was something in his tone-a tr

e pang of familiarity struck me again. There was something abo

ther live and av

me harder th

him, eyes wi

arents' deaths. But there was fear. Gui

n't h

e you a

ughts?" he said, chuck

e-he wasn't h

t I told you. It would honor your family if you could av

I stared at him like he h

hat's mine. Don't bother

e vanished. Just like t

I dropped to the ground, h

he was

spared for

e only way God

hanged: take revenge on

uffer for the p

inside me-rage unlike anything I'd ever experienced.

self-loathing. Maybe I'd been too angry at

grateful to the one man who, in his own twisted way, ga

e one who took m

nd who didn't just betray m

end th

, my body trembling, my e

eady to

dy to mak

whispered, seething,

mily without a shred of mercy-I

off the ground and staggered toward the roadside to find a ta

ialed Eva-my best friend. S

The phone rang once

? Why wasn't

fin

irl," she answ

as still pissed that sh

er," she added quickly, sensing my si

her earlier, before I ne

been crushe

er voice snapped m

ah.

my side. It hit hard-deep in my stomach. Bu

I

er, stronger and this t

llap

d, clutching my stomach. My body was o

nt to die.

t

unbearable, tears

g with you,

ic on the other end.

I managed

ything we