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Slowly, the newly minted director of the FBI smiled. Game on.

“I love you.” Dean lifted the words from my mind. “Today, tomorrow, covered in blood, haunted and waking up in the middle of the night screaming—I love you, Cassie, and I’m here, and I’m not going anywhere.”

Agent Sterling stared at her father, and for an instant, I could see the little girl she’d been. You adored him once. You respected him. You joined the FBI for him.

My mom isn’t moving. Her heart isn’t beating. Her eyes—they don’t see me. I pulled the knife out of her chest, and her body fell to the ground as FBI agents poured into the room. I love you. I love you. I love you. Gone.

Dancing in the snow. Curled up in her lap. Behavior. Personality. Environment. I love you. I love you. I—

“Forever and ever.” I closed my eyes. I waited. Forever and ever. Forever and ever. “No matter what.” I wasn’t the one who’d spoken those words. I opened my eyes. The woman holding the knife was shaking. “Forever and ever, Cassie. No matter what.

For my mom. For the woman who’d taught me to dance it off. For the one who’d kissed every skinned knee and taught me to read people and told me, every single day, that I was loved.

DIREXTOR STERLING IS A MASTER?!!?!?!

TA Geoff killed Bryce and is involved with Pythia cult?!

REE CHOSE LORELAI TO BE PYTHIA?