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บททั้งหมดของ Little Dark Secrets : บทที่ 181 - บทที่ 187

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Chapter 181

Chapter 181IvyThe second the call ended, I screamed Jade’s name at a dead phone like she could still hear me, and Daniel took it out of my hand before I threw it through Morales’s kitchen window.“What did she say?” Morales was already grabbing her keys. “Ivy. Exactly. What did she say?”“Horses. It smells like horses. And Ashcombe. Ashcombe House. She shouted it right before he hung up.”Morales was typing into her laptop before I finished the sentence. Jax was standing by the door with his hands in his hair, white as the wall. Mum was on the floor of the hallway. Nobody had even seen her sit down.“Ashcombe House,” Morales said. “Oxfordshire. Forty minutes out. Old horse farm. Sold three years ago to a company called Halbrook Holdings.” She looked up. “Halbrook. Same name as the company paying Harlan.”“Carrington owns it,” Daniel said.“Carrington owns it.”“Then we go. Now.”“Reed, you’re suspended.”“Then arrest me when we get back.”Morales didn’t argue. She made two calls in
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Chapter 182

Chapter 182DanielI heard the door open through Ivy’s microphone before I understood what it meant, and then I heard Ava say his name, and every person in that van turned around and looked at me like I had done it.“How is she in there?” Morales snapped. “Where’s Jax? Jax was supposed to keep her at the end of the street!”“He was,” I said. “He was supposed to.”Superintendent Whitlock was sitting at the front of the van with one hand pressed to her own earpiece and her face didn’t move at all. “Is she wired?”“No.”“Is she armed?”“She’s Ava,” Morales said. “She’s barely holding a handbag.”Through the speaker, Noah Carrington laughed. It came through the little box on the table in the van clear and warm and friendly, and it made my skin crawl.“Ava. My God. Twenty years. You look terrible.”“You look exactly the same,” Ava said. Her voice was shaking. “That’s the worst part.”“Mum, go,” Ivy said. “Please. Go back downstairs.”“No, baby. I’ve been going for twenty years. I’m done go
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Chapter 183

Chapter 183IvyHospitals always smell the same. I have spent more nights in hospitals than I can count, waiting for Mum to wake up, waiting for Mum to sober up, waiting for some doctor to come out and tell me she was going to be fine this time, and every single one of them smelled like this. Bleach and burnt coffee and fear.But I’d never waited for Jax before.“He’s going to be fine,” Daniel said for the fourth time. He was sitting next to me in a plastic chair in the waiting room with his elbows on his knees. My hands were clean now. A nurse had taken me to a sink and helped me scrub them until the water ran clear, and then she’d given me a set of blue hospital scrubs because my dress was ruined, and now I looked like I worked there.“You keep saying that.”“Because it keeps being true.”“You don’t know that. You’re not a doctor.”“I know the bullet went in under the collarbone and out the back. I know he was talking the whole way down in the elevator. I know he asked the paramedic
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Chapter 184

Chapter 184JaxI was halfway through my second cheeseburger when the door opened, and I honestly thought it was a nurse coming to tell me off again, because the last one had said a man with a hole in his shoulder should be eating soup, and I had told her that a man with a hole in his shoulder deserved whatever he wanted.It wasn’t a nurse.It was a woman in her late thirties with short dark hair and a leather jacket and a backpack on one shoulder, standing in the doorway like she’d just walked straight off a plane and into my room without asking anybody where she was going. Which, it turned out, was exactly what she’d done.She looked at me. I looked at her. I put the cheeseburger down.“Riley?”“Hi, Jax.”“What… how…”“You’re on the news,” she said. “You and Ava and some mayor from New York. Every channel. They showed a picture of her from when we were nineteen. The one from the school yearbook. I was at work. I dropped a whole tray of coffee on the floor.” She laughed, but her eyes
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Chapter 185

Chapter 185IvyEverybody was looking at me. That was the worst part. Jax had said the words, a proper place, doctors who stay, and then every single head in that hospital room turned toward me like I was the one who had to answer.I wasn’t. Mum was.But I knew why they were looking. Because I was the one who had driven her to every rehab place in London since I was fifteen. I was the one who packed her bag. I was the one who sat in the car afterward and cried where she couldn’t see. I was the one who picked her up twenty-eight days later every single time, and watched her promise, and watched her break it.“Mum,” I said.She looked at me. Her eyes were red. Her hands were shaking.“You don’t have to decide right now,” Jax said.“Yes, she does,” I said. “If she doesn’t decide now, she’ll talk herself out of it by tonight. I know her.”“Ivy,” Riley said softly.“No, I’m serious. I’m not being mean. I’ve done this with her nine times. Nine. Every time she says this time is different, an
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Chapter 186

Ivy I woke up before the sun came fully up. Daniel’s arm was heavy across my waist. His breath was slow against the back of my neck. The room was still dark except for the thin line of light under the curtain. I lay there without moving and listened to him breathe.I never thought he would be my end game. Not once. When I first met him he was just the man who kept showing up. The man who drove me places. The man who did not flinch when my life fell apart. I told myself he was temporary. Safe for now. Good for the hard days. I never let myself think past that. End game was for other people. People with clean histories and quiet minds. Not for me.But here I was. In his bed. With the taste of last night still in my mouth and a blank canvas waiting in the living room because he had bought it without asking. Because he had written that note. Start with any color you want. Nobody’s allowed to tell you it’s wrong.I turned carefully so I could see his face. His eyes were closed. His mouth
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Chapter 187

Chapter 187IvySix months later, I was standing on a porch in America with a suitcase in each hand, watching my mother knock on her own front door.She didn’t need to knock. Her mother had been standing at the window for an hour. We’d seen her the second the taxi turned into the street, a small gray-haired woman with both hands pressed flat against the glass. But Mum stood there on the doormat anyway, with her knuckles against the wood, like she needed to do it properly.“You okay?” I asked.“No,” Mum said. “Yes. I don’t know. Ask me in ten minutes.”“You’ve been sober six months. You can knock on a door.”“Six months and four days.”“Six months and four days,” I said. “Knock, Mum.”She knocked.The door flew open so fast it bounced off the wall. And then my grandmother, a woman I had never met, whose name I had only learned half a year ago, had both arms around my mother on the porch, and they were both crying so loud that a man walking his dog across the street stopped and stared.
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