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The Ground Beneath Me

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Michael’s POV

Marlo’s gun was still pointed at my chest. I could see straight into the hollow black of it, and for a strange, detached second, I found myself wondering what it would feel like to have everything end right in this moment.

Ashley’s voice was somewhere behind me muffled by the motel door.

“Don’t you dare! Marlo, don’t you dare shoot him!”

Her voice cracked on my name and that did something to me.

Anabelle stood beside Marlo like a shadow made of venom, her eyes burning into me wit
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