08/02/2026 22:42

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I did want him, I'd wanted him the way a woman wants a man for a long time. Are you telling me that all this jumping around is normal for you? I glared at him. In hopes Mom was housebound by therules for ghost mothers. She gazed up at me, and there was so much more of her than there should have been.

The charge, of course, was on my stolen card. The look of hatred in her eyes made me want to flinch. I had to do this. There had to be a reason to die without regret.