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River’s POV

Sleep just didn’t come easy that night.

I tossed, turned, kicked off the blanket, pulled it back, then kicked it off again. I stared at the ceiling until the lines between the shadows started looking like animals. For a second, I saw a lizard. Then it looked like a cat. Then just a crack in the paint.

The envelope Daniel gave me sat across the room, on the edge of my desk, half of it sliding like it might fall off. I hadn’t moved it since I looked through it earlier. The papers were still there, scattered, the way my thoughts were scattered. All those names and phone numbers and places. Stuff he’d searched for me—no, not just for me. For us.

He did more than I asked. Maybe more than I expected. Maybe more than I deserved.

I told myself I didn’t care. I told myself it didn’t matter.

But here I was, lying wide-eyed at nearly three in the morning, wondering why my chest felt too tight and why I couldn’t stop going over every little thing he said. The way he looked at me. The
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