SHATTERED AND TEMPTED
“Every single fucking thing is wrong with my life! I’m tired, Diesel. So tired of running and hiding and being the reason people get hurt. If going with him stops the blood… then let me go.”
The broken crack in her voice hit me harder than anything Donald could do. The bright, laughing girl from the arcade — the one who’d fed me ice cream and called me unfair — was gone. In her place stood someone exhausted, desperate, carrying too much for too long.
I lowered the gun and handed it back to Hawk. Then I stepped in close and lifted her chin with two fingers, forcing her tear-streaked face up to mine.
“You’ll see him,” I said, voice low and final. “You’ll say whatever you need to say. But the s