It Ends with Her

by Brianna Labuskes

The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. —Ernest Hemingway

Special Agent Sam Gallagher had the right connections to open any doors her degree and her field testing couldn’t.

Then Sam had come along. Because he always came along. At first

“You know what I’m talking about. Austin. You practically threw yourself at him.”