Chapter 90

• MEREDITH:
• He lessened his grip, giving me room to swallow. “I thought so, too. I thought he was a twenty-year-old that I could easily manipulate, but he was smarter and braver for his age. If he had simply handed over that program to me, accepting my compensation, no one would have killed him.” He edged further, closing the distance between us. “My feeling for you went cold even before our breakup.” I knew that. “I stopped loving you five years ago.”
• “Why did you stick around then until a seventh year? Why didn't you set me free? Why did you reappear to claim that you loved me? That you have been thinking of me.”