Let them bury her

Aysha POVI woke up to white ceiling tiles and a pain so deep in my chest that I couldn't tell where my body ended and the ache began.For a moment I didn't know where I was. The room smelled like antiseptic and something faintly floral, lavender maybe, coming from somewhere I couldn't place. Machines hummed quietly beside me. A drip line ran into the back of my hand.I tried to sit up and immediately regretted it."Hey, hey, easy." A voice I hadn't heard in years, low and familiar, cut through the fog. "Don't move too fast."I turned my head slowly and found Diego sitting beside the bed, elbows on his knees, looking like he hadn't slept in days."Diego." My voice came out cracked and strange."You're safe," he said, before I could ask anything else. "You're safe. I've got you.""What happened." I tried to remember, tried to pull the pieces together. Adrian. Mira. The divorce papers. My car. Headlights closing in fast in the mirror. "The car. Someone hit me.""Someone tried to kill yo

Apparently I don’t exist anymore

Diego POVThree days after the funeral, I drove out to the salvage yard where they'd towed what was left of Aysha's car.I told the manager I was there on behalf of the insurance company, slipped him enough cash to stop asking questions, and spent twenty minutes photographing every angle of the wreckage before anyone official showed up to do the same.I was looking for proof.The front end was destroyed, the kind of damage that matched being struck hard from behind at high speed. But it was the underside that told the real story. I crouched down, flashlight in hand, and found what I already suspected I'd find.The brake line had been cut.Someone hadn't just run her off the road. Someone had made sure that even if she survived the first attempt, she wouldn't survive the second.I took pictures of everything before I left, my hands steady despite the anger building low and cold in my chest.Reyes had a friend, a mechanic named Solomon who used to work forensics before he got tired of

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Let them bury her

Apparently I don’t exist anymore