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Addie
I really didn’t like the idea of leaving Joanna alone in her house — it felt awfully isolated, even though she assured me that her closest neighbor was less than five minutes away — but I knew I didn’t have much say in the matter. She kept reiterating that she was fine, and I had to accept her words at face value. Besides, she’d promised she would call Eleanor if she started to feel at all strange. There wasn’t much else I — or Jake — could do.
So, I drove back to our house with him in the passenger seat of my little green Fiat and an uncomfortable silence stretching between us. I honestly didn’t know what to say. Whatever had clapped back at Joanna hadn’t affected me, for whatever reason. In my mind, that meant I needed to keep trying…but I had a feeling Jake had a very differe
