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"Enough," I beg "I can’t breathe!"

He eases up slightly, not enough to letpressure off "Now listen to me You will calm the fk down or I swear to God, Harper, I’ll tie you up until you do as you’re told You are out of control" He leans into ain to make his point, and I whine in response "Do you understand?"

"I need to know right now, Jaonna check, not you" He eases up again, to test hting over checking a dead body? "You OK?"

I nod And then he’s offto coht to see a few details The color of the bike Orange The hair sticking out from the helmet in little tufts Blond I have to put a hand over rasps the helles back and forth in a sickening way that ht over and puke "I can’t watch, I can’t watch"

"Don’t watch, Harp," Ja And then all I hear is, "Oh, fk"

I roll over and press round and cry "It’s him, isn’t it? It’s him!"

And the my back "It’s not him, Harper It’s not him"

I roll back to look James in the face and sit up to see for myself "It’s not him!"

James pulls me into his chest and kisses uy"

"Who?" Tears of relief are running down my face and I have to wipe my face

"Someone who should be dead"

"What?" I ask, still a bit slow fro "What do youhe wants to talk about "I mean--"

"He means," Sasha says behind us, "he killed theht"

We both turn around to find Sasha sitting up in the back seat Her face is all bloody, her ars covered in thorn scratches froh a wall of ocotillos