Instead of coming for her right through the window like she expects, he steps ahead, into the doorless doorway, and Letha pivots around to meet him head-on, because some things you can’t run from, and because this is it, because it’s been too long, because she can’t help it, she screams, her teeth parting for the first time in so long, all her anger pouring out louder and louder, her whole upper body leaning forward, her chin tapping the puffy chest of her jacket she’s pretty sure, an off-putting enough thing that even Dark Mill South stops in his tracks, his eyes widening to take this,
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