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Quin’s POV

My chest felt tight. Painfully tight, hearing those words spill from her lips. The weight behind them. The rawness. The truth.

I didn’t recoil. I didn’t hate her. Because I understood how dark the world could be, how it could force you to do unspeakable things just to survive. I had been there. I knew what it was like to be stripped of choices.

But Eliza wasn’t done. Her voice trembled, haunted and hollow.

“That wasn’t the end,” she said, eyes glossy, voice shaking so badly I almost couldn’t hear her. “When I was sure he was dead, Quin, I thought… I can’t leave any evidence. No more bad luck tied to me. I wasn’t even scared anymore, you know? I’d… learned it from my parents. How to hide things, how to make things disappear.”

“I dragged him out,” she continued, swallowing hard, “and planned to get rid of the body. But… I ran into Priscilla.”

I felt the air leave my lungs. “Priscilla?”

Eliza nodded, a twisted laugh bubbling from her throat, so fragile it might break he
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