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I heard footsteps approaching the door but didn’t bother to move from the corner I had glued my back to. Really, there was no point. If I was lucky, he would just enter, drop the tray of food on the floor by the door, and leave without going into another lecture about family duty and the justification of all this madness.
How long had it been? I frowned as I tried to do the math in my head. It was hard to keep track of the days when I didn’t have access to any gadgets and I hadn’t seen the outside of the laundry room for days. Not since the morning I’d returned home from spending the night with Kaylee. A four-by-four room with a smaller space attached which held a single toilet and sink that had a small blocked-out window above it were the only things in the place. None of it helped
