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She did it for me. All these years, I was sure she didn’t care, that I was just an inconvenience she was stuck with. There were times I wondered if she wished I wasn’t born.
And now here she is, crying over a baby that will never be because a disgusting, evil man made her choose between us.
“I’m sorry, Mom.” It’s a little awkward, reaching out to rub her back while she cries, but it’s all I can do. Right now, we’re both victims.
26
BRIGGS
I’m fucking pissed. Wren is not answering any of my messages or calls, and she didn’t show up for class this morning. Ready to confront her, I jog over to the dorms.
When I get to her door, I pull the key from my pocket and unlock it. I push inside ready to give her a piece of my mind for daring to ignore me again, when I come to a sudden halt.
Her room is a fucking mess. Someone has gone through the little stuff she has and destroyed it all. Her paintings and drawings ripped apart and scattered across the floor.
Fuck!A dark pit forms in my stomach. Someone broke in here and did this. What if she was here? What if someone took her? My heart beats a million miles per minute at the thought.
“Wren?” I call out for her, hoping she might be in the bathroom, but when I poke my head inside, I realize she is really not here. That’s when I spot something on her desk. A note. Scribbled in the same handwriting as the other.
LAST CHANCE, ROACH. LEAVE OR DIE!
Losing control, I crumble the note up and throw it across the room. My breathing comes heavy, my chest rising and fallingrapidly. At least this means they didn’t take her. She must have seen the note and left.
I run my fingers through my hair and rake my brain on where to look for her next. Would she go back to Buck’s place? Or maybe Maya?
I end up trying both. First, I drive to her old apartment and knock on the door like I’m about to kick it down. Buck answers right away.
“Is Wren here?” I ask as soon as he opens the door with a beer in his hand.
“No, man, I haven’t seen her since she moved out.” Lucky for him, I believe him.
I try Maya next. I call around until I get her number through friends. She answers on the third ring.
“Hello?”
I get straight to the point. “It’s Briggs, is Wren with you?”
“Even if she was, I wouldn’t tellyou,” she snaps at me. I ignore her salty attitude.
“Someone destroyed her dorm room, trashed the place, broke her shit and left a threatening note.”
“What? No! If you had anything to do with it?—”
“If I did, why would I try to find her now?”
“I don’t know what goes on in your fucked up mind but if I find out you hurt my friend again, I’m coming after you, asshole.”
“Save your threats for someone else. Help me find Wren so I can make sure she is okay.”
“And why do you care all of a sudden if she is okay or not?”
That’s a good question. Why do I care? I don’t fucking know.
“I just do okay.” It’s all I can tell her.
“She is not with me, and I don’t know where else she would be. She hasn’t messaged or called me, but I will try to call her as soon as I get off the phone with you.”
“Okay, call me back if you reach her.”
