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“Why, James?” Meredith said, quietly, reproachfully, as if he had somehow betrayed her. “You of all people should understand . . . We don’t owe him anything.”
― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains

“We stood numb and silent on the dock as the earth ceased to turn. A terrible stillness held our six warm breathing bodies and Richard—unmoving, inanimate thing—in the same unbreakable thrall. Then there was a sound, a soft groan; Richard stretched one hand feebly toward us, and the whole world lurched. Wren stifled a scream and James grabbed my arm. “Oh, God.” He choked on the word. “He’s still alive.”
― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains

“He drowned himself on the last day of December, and though the local authorities dragged the freezing water for days and miles, his body was never found.”
― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains

“and so help me God, don’t pull anything else like that or I’ll have Oliver learn your lines and you can watch from the front row on opening night.”
― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains