Page 79 of Broken Play


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She disappears around the corner and I stay rooted in place, chest heaving like I ran a marathon.

My hands shake.

Not fear.

Rage.

Someone is in her life.

Someone is messing with her head.

Someone is making her flinch at shadows.

And if I find out who—

I will end him.

I don’t care how.

I don’t care where.

I don’t care what it costs.

Nobody breaks her like that.

Not again.

Not while I’m here.

Not ever.










Chapter 23: Finn

Bars are supposed tomake noise.

That’s the whole point — clinking glasses, bad music, people talking too loud because they want strangers to notice them and pretend they don’t.