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CHAPTER FORTY-EIGHT

February 12, 2019

The sounds terrify her. The push and pull. She wants to tell the woman to shut up, to let her think for a minute. And then she remembers that she’s alone. It’s her. It’s her breathing that she’s hearing. She has to slow herself down. She’s getting dizzy.

She’s found ása’s secret boyfriend.

They’ve been seeing each other for months. Then something went wrong. Take your anger and choke on it, ása had said.

She breaks up with him.

Then she disappears.

Thor hasn’t said anything. Hasn’t told anyone about his relationship with this young woman. Why hide it?

She puts the phone back onto the nightstand. She doesn’t want to touch it.

A single thought consumes her:

She has to get out of here.

Now.