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I couldn’t stay.
For the first time in my life, I did something for me.
“I’ll come back for you, Nickie,” I said, a painful lump clogging my throat. “I swear I will. I hope you’ll have changed your mind by then.”
She was staring at me, her nostrils flared, her eyes bright and shiny with unshed tears. It was as though she was amazed I was actually choosing to leave her. I’d never done that before. Maybe she’d thought I would always put her first.
“Here,” said X to Mateo, crouching down to slide his gun across the floor, not so close that Mateo could snatch it up and use it on him, but close enough that he’d be able to grab it after we’d left. “We don’t know what’s going down out there yet. Protect her with it.”
I was grateful to X for doing that.
I gave Nicole one final pleading glance, but she wouldn’t meet my eye, so I allowed X to grab my hand once more and pull me out of the library.
