Chapter 26
OLALLIE Arriving back home, I do my best to not lose my nerves. No more dressings wrapped around my scabbed wounds. There were a few debates about who would serve Knox the papers, but I do because it’s one last thing I need to face. There is an absence of people, the halls haunted by happy childhood laughter. Laughter I never joined in on, I wasn’t an active member of the family back then. Half expect Kalonie to jump out and catch me with a noose around my throat, dragging me back to my place in the corner. A small deep breath as I look both ways before I hold a steady fist to knock on his office door. The big decorative K is carved into the wood. “Knox.” Opening it wide before he tells me to come back another time. The only time we have left is right now. And I am afraid I am was
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