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el shrinking in the rearview mirror. My flight wasn't until tomorrow

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t run. Not yet. Leaving now meant leaving everything behind-my laptop with the original fi

my voice finding a new, h

bition and his lies, and I began the demolition. I pulled a shoebox from the back of my closet, the one filled with photos of

aper was a viscerally satisfying sound. I shoved every gif

he engine off after dropping off my re

s. "We're going to be on the cover of Prestige magazine. Our engagement! We need to st

gh in the background. "Tell her to pic

oke back into the phone. "Gotta go, bab

if I was okay. He just assumed I was waiting b

and Ethan, clinking champagne glasses. The caption was a poisoned dart: To new b

again. An un

ayed at the edges. "There was an... incident. Ethan saw the news coverage from

rything he had done, I didn't believe it for a second. This wasn't a collapse; it was a st

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an attempt to trigger the old reflex of the wom

ne. She had died on t

ound heavy in the quie

watch the performance. And t