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“Don’t leave me Don’t leave me Please don’t leave me”

She left him, because he was a pretender and she was the sun, and the wound in the sky rained on his face and asked if he was done, done, done He closed his eyes and lay in the hole he’d dug without his ar, and all the lines were crossed, his chain, because he’d asked Rory to stay when he had no right to and knew she should run far away fro lies

Chapter Twenty-Four

Rory had laughed at Zeke playing the fool as she was“The Pretender” He sang “Run” What did he know that she didn’t? Run It wasn’t a lyric It was an instruction

There was also no freaking way she was running without hi anywhere because Daniel the brute had un across his knees and there was no other way out

“Why is he there?” Shavonne reasonably wanted to know

“I ry?”

“On purpose”

She alhed because Shavonne’s question sounded more like a statement

“Not good Not good at all That’s a lifetime membership of the black mark’s club Why do I think you’re not worried about that?”

She had far bigger problems Run She took Daniel down the first time because he didn’t expect it He was armed, and he knew she had skills She could wait him out, he had to sleep at so wasn’t so you did at your leisure

She stood with Shavonne peering out the shutters at the brute’s back Shavonne didn’t need this in her life “You should go to the nursery He doesn’t have a beef with you”

“Uh-uh No way That guy is an asshole and this is thethat’s happened to ot here”

“I need to get to led up in this”

“Oh, I need to be That is my porch and you are my cabinmate”