Riley “You don’t have to decide everything right now,” I said, slower, trying to make it simple, “just… come sit in the car, okay? We’ll figure it out from there.”Her mom let out a sharp breath. “If she gets in that car, she is no longer my daughter.”“Wow,” I muttered under my breath, “love the emotional support, really top tier parenting.”“Riley,” Ava said, and there was something in it now, something like panic, like she was about to break.“I’m here,” I said immediately, stepping even closer, close enough now that I could see the bruises starting to form on her arm, and yeah, that made me angrier than I was already, which I didn’t think was possible but here we are.She looked down at her arm, then back at me, then at her mom, and for a second I thought she was going to stay, I really did, because fear is a powerful thing and this was her family and walking away from that is not easy, it’s never easy, no matter how bad it gets.Then she moved.It was small at first, just her sh
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