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Dee picked up her pace as if running from the truth of her thoughts was a real thing.
She'd been running the darkened, vacant streets of this town every night for the past year and until two nights ago she'd never had a problem. It seemed paranoid to stop doing the thing that made her happy after one bad experience.
-Even though it goes directly against your promise to Mike?-
Her speed intensified as the thought proclaimed itself, arguments why her broken word was valid warring against her guilt.
If there were more of those things out here, she needed to know. She needed to stop them before any innocents got hurt.
Of course, this was not a point she mentioned to Mike. Rather than debate her refreshed pledge to him, she'd quickly agreed. She knew he'd chain her up if he had the slig
