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Georgina Shaw can’t bring herself to make eye contact with them.
“You left your best friend buried in the woods, a mere hundred yards from the house you lived in, after your boyfriend cut her up into pieces.”
TODAY IS GONNA BE THE DAY THAT THEY’RE GONNA THROW IT BACK TO YOU
Somehow, in a room full of women, Geo is alone with her attacker.
Her dad always said that you only get one real chance at love, and if that was true, Geo had wasted hers at the age of sixteen on a boyfriend who’d turned out to be a serial killer known as the Sweetbay Strangler.
They work together, for fuck’s sake. She’s his goddamned partner.
Children are innocent. They’re small. They can’t defend themselves against predators. They’ve done nothing to warrant any violence against them. Bad things aren’t supposed to happen to kids.
Because buried things can, and do, come back.
One heart, one chance at love.
Before Calvin. After Calvin. Before prison. And now, after prison.
And it stayed magical even when it turned violent. That’s the part nobody explains to you.
Living a life that isn’t meant for you is its own version of hell.
“The devil. With a pretty face and a showy car.”
under the bed. Where secrets hide.
In every story, there’s a hero and villain. Sometimes one person can be both.
“Georgina, please. Don’t make me hurt you, too.”
Because that’s what liars did. They lied. And then they lied some more to protect those lies.
“I’ve been through a lot, but this takes the cake. Someone cut my baby girl up? Why?”
He believed that the dead were already at peace. It was the living who suffered.
People like me should not exist.”
A child with Geo?
She was pregnant with Calvin’s baby. And it wasn’t a love child. How could it be, when it was rape?
The man walking toward her is Calvin James.
