22/04/2026 00:29

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There'd been a time when Ronnie had been the more sophisticated of the two of us, and I'd been the one who blushed all the time. You did not come off like a human. He looked away when he said the last, as if he didn't want me to see whatever was in his face. How? He was just in my head, not words, not exactly images, I just suddenly understood, because he understood.

I wanted to go to him, wanted to hold him, but he'd said no. I was shivering, but it was only partly from the wet hair sliding down my neck. Call it a hunch, but when Primo rushed us, I wouldn't want to waste that second. Murder someone in my town, and I'm the one that you get to see.