ELLE For a heartbeat, I thought my eyes were deceiving me. But they weren’t. Melody had stepped into the light beside Evans—alive, breathing, and smirking as if she had just been resurrected from the dead. The last time I had seen her, she was screaming, pleading, and clawing as officers dragged her away in handcuffs. Raymond and I had watched that prison van drive off. She was supposed to be gone. Locked away and erased. Yet she stood there now, her hair pulled back, lips painted blood red, and her eyes burning with a venomous kind of triumph. “Hello, Elle,” she said with a light chuckle. “Missed me?” My body went cold. Raymond stiffened beside me, a deadly stillness settling in his posture. His fingers wrapped around my wrist instinctively, pulling me a half-step behind him. Evans shifted beside her, his grin stretching wider. “I told you they would come.” Before either of us could speak, Melody pulled a gun from behind her back and pointed it directly at Raymond’s chest.
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