07/02/2026 03:42

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I'd heard him say things like that to Micah before, but never to me, or at least not like he meant it. The apartment was dark. I got out of the bed, tugging the sheet around me like a robe. I caught movement out of the corner of my eye.

“You’ll be leaving now,” she said. More humane. The man came around the comer of the building, into the courtyard. I shrugged.