"I'm going to get out of this car now," Maeve said, and she opened the door. "And I'm going to go back to Los Angeles. And I'm going to tell Carter exactly what you've confessed to me.""Then he'll destroy me," Cameron said. There was no anger in his voice, just sad certainty. "Our family will be destroyed. Is that really what you want?"Maeve paused at the edge of the car, silhouetted against the setting sun."I want," she said slowly, "to make my own choices. I want to stop being leverage, whether it's in Carter's contract or your coercion or anyone else's game. And if protecting my ability to choose means your family gets destroyed, then yes. That's exactly what I want."She slammed the door and started walking back toward the highway.Behind her, Cameron's voice carried on the ocean breeze: "You can't outrun this, Maeve! You can't outrun what I know!"But she could try.She could absolutely try.Maeve called Carter from the side of the highway, after a passing driver stopped to as
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