CH.18 - The Locker Room-2

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He goes very still. The strip light buzzes. His eyes hold mine and there's a whole war in them, and for one second I think this is it, this is where he finally tells me, and my heart is slamming and I don't move because I'm afraid if I move he'll stop. "Anna." My name comes out of him like it costs something. He's so close now I can see the shadows under his eyes, the exhaustion he wears like a second skin. "You have to stop seeing so much. It isn't safe. For you. The more you see, the more..." The door bangs open. We spring apart, and Will is standing there, filling the doorway, and the easy grin he wears is nowhere on his face. His eyes go from Evan to me and back to Evan, quick, calculating, and there's a nervous energy coming off him, a jittery wrongness, his weight shifting foot to

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