![]() ![]() “He was angry, and I didn’t…connect the dots, but he hit me.” “His voice…I recognized it in the stairwell when he talked to Jolena, and outside the gym that day-” My stomach jerks. “Liam?” I gasp out, shuddering as it clicks. I’m in those woods again and he’s on top of me, holding me down, and I can’t breathe, I can’t move, I can’t scream. My eyes shut as revulsion inches over me, bit by bit, images from the party flashing one by one, that horrible carnival ride. “When I went home Thursday morning, Dane told me he remembered seeing Liam follow you into the woods.” I want to be strong, I want to prepare myself, I want to walk away from him with this anger hot in my chest, but…I have to know. ![]() I rub my hands over my arms, feeling chilled in the sun as I try to hold myself together. “I’m not leaving.” He wanders off to sit on a bench a few feet away. The silence stretches around us, thick with tension. “More telling me to slow down? I knew something was off with you!” We step outside and Knox follows us, stopping me with a hand on my arm. ![]() “We’re leaving,” Wyatt murmurs to the woman then steers me to the exit. The lady from the desk appears next to us, her eyes darting from me to Knox. ![]() “Dane remembers something! That’s what all this is, am I right? You and him and the lawyers? I’m not stupid, Knox! He knows, and he told you, and you need time to breathe right after we have…a moment together that I thought meant something. ![]()
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