Anna’s tears came hot and relentless, spilling past her trembling hands as though her body no longer knew how to contain them. Her chest ached with the violent rise and fall of her breath, every sob tearing her thinner, and hollower. She didn’t know which wound hurt more: the terror of Alex throwing her out again with no one to catch her fall, or the exposure of Gary’s betrayal, slicing away the one ally she thought she had left. Maybe it was Maya’s face flashing in her mind, still in captivity because of her, or worse, it was the sound of Gary’s voice curling around her son’s name.Her whole body shook with the weight of it. She felt naked, stripped and broken to marrow.“That’s very callous, Gary,” she had mummured, her voice shredded with tears.But now the silence was worse. Twenty minutes had crawled by since the call ended, and Alex hadn’t spoken a word. He just stood there immovable, and dangerous. His face was unreadable, his eyes shadowed in thought. The silence pressed on he
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