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I had told JJ I wouldn’t stop her if she decided to leave. I meant it too. At the time, that had felt like some enormous f*****g step after I’d dragged her here unconscious and then refused to take her home when she woke up.
Except she couldn’t leave Benny’s house without asking one of us to drive her somewhere.
She couldn’t come back inside without somebody opening the door.
The phone in her pocket was a temporary burner Benny had handed her because I was keeping her real one disconnected.
Apparently I’d cleared the bar of not physically imprisoning her and decided that was enough.
It wasn’t.
By afternoon, I had fixed what I could.
Benny was stretched across the couch with a pillow braced against his side while Millie sat on the floor watching cartoons. She had already inform
