“Where were you this whole time?” he asked again, his voice rasping before she could even process his first question. “Yours is the only face I remember. But I couldn’t get the door open.” A low groan escaped him, his eyes clouded with a raw, desperate confusion.
The second-floor door she’d always used couldn’t be opened from the inside. He must have shattered the back window and crawled out just as she came in. The thought of his bloody,
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