**MERRICK**Dawn crept through the guest bedroom curtains, but sleep never followed it in.I had spent the entire night staring at a ceiling that did not belong to me, replaying the moment Astrid put the gun in her mouth and smiled.No matter how hard I tried, the sound of a skull cracking open against a bullet was surprisingly difficult to forget.I rolled to my left, glaring through the window into the bright pink sky dotted with white clouds, tasting whiskey on my breath and seeing my mother in my mind's eye. Her eyes had been shut the whole time, yet I had expected them to flicker open, and her hands to yank the tube from her throat and demand for a bottle of gin. To no surprise, her eyes stayed shut, and she didn't combust, or wither away in ash.Maybe Astrid pushing her down the stairs would give her liver some breathing space.Astrid. My heart retreated into its cage, leaving me hollow as I tossed and turned, and heaved off the bed with a sigh.I broke into a pace, grounding
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