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I drop my gaze to my lap and scowl as I try to put all the pieces together. What exactly is she saying? “I’m sorry. That must have been hard.”
“I begged him to just give us a chance, you know? But the more I begged, the more he stood his ground and then he said that he wanted to break up instead so I did what I had to do.”
“What did you do, Lil?” I ask, my eyes snapping up to hers and she shrugs.
“I couldn’t let him leave me.”
Oh my God…
Jesus fucking Christ.
In the three years that I’ve known her, I never would have guessed that she was this unbalanced and I shake my head, wondering how the hell I never saw it. How I never picked up on the fact that, at some point, she fell in love with me?
“You killed him?” I ask as I struggle to draw a breath into my lungs and she shrugs again, her grip on the steering wheel tightening.
“I couldn’t let him just leave me, Piper. Not after everything. Don’t you judge me.”
Holding my hands up in surrender, I shake my head. “I’m not. Just surprised is all.”
“Oh, okay…” Her gaze flicks to the rearview mirror and she hisses a curse. I glance in the side mirror and my heart jumps when I see the Bronco right on our heels.
Oh, fuck, Wyatt, what the hell are you doing?
She glances over at me and I turn, meeting her eyes. Her grip on the steering wheel tightens and she blows out a breath.
“This was all a trick?”
I shake my head. “No, Lil… it’s not a trick but he’s not just going to let me go.”
“I shouldn’t have left the gun,” she growls and I’m suddenly very glad for my quick thinking as I glance at the truck in the side mirror again. When I glance back at her, her eyes are sad and she shakes her head as a tear slips down her cheek.
“I don’t want to do it…”
My brows knit together and my heart sinks as I try to decipher her words. “You don’t want to do what?”
“I won’t let him take you from me…”
My eyes widen and I open my mouth to scream, beg her to rethink her plan but before I can get the words out, she jerks the wheel to the side and the car flies off the road. My head smashes against the window and everything flips upside down just before my world fades to black.
