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Chapter 31: Pressure Points

Penulis: N.S Amari
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Tessa’s cell was cold—more from the silence than the air. She sat on the bench, elbows on her knees, hands clasped so tight her knuckles ached. Every sound echoed too loud. A door slamming two corridors down. A woman sobbing in a nearby holding unit. The officer’s radio squawking intermittently.

She hadn’t cried.

Not when they cuffed her.

Not when they read her the man’s time of death.

Not even when she saw the blood on the hood of her car.

But now? Sitting here, alone, with nothing but her thoughts clawing at her? Now the tears burned like acid.

She hadn’t meant to kill anyone. God, no. She was rushing. Yes. Distracted. Yes. But she wasn’t reckless. She hadn’t even been going that fast.

The man had stepped into the road.

Didn’t he see the car?

Didn’t she see him?

Was that one second of impact enough to unravel every good thing she’d ever done?

A sharp breath escaped her lips, and she folded forward, forehead to knees. The cold from the cement bled through the thin padding of the benc
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