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Zee could not control her fear.

“Oh my god!”

“I’m so sorry, Zee.”

“Wait a minute, does the game say crash a wedding or the wedding?”

“It says, crash the wedding,” Inara repeated. “Why?”

“Jesus Christ!” Zee said fearfully. “That would be Michael’s wedding.”

“How?”

“A wedding will just be any wedding,” Zee said wearily. “But the wedding is personal. It’s the one that currently relates to my life, sort of.” She also remembered Michael’s dire threat about making her suffer if she ever sought him out to use him again. “I am finished.” She added brokenly, her eyes clamming up with tears. “I am finished.”

“I’m sorry, Zee.”

Tears blurred Zee’s vision as she sat inside her car, parked before her home. Then she ended the call.

Inara looked at Lemuel and he hugged her comfortingly.

“It’s because she cheated the game. Now she just has to do the game’s dare.”

“Which is