There Is No Devil Sinners Duet Book 2 By Sophie Lark-pdfread

pretending not to notice. I let him walk behind me in the woods. I could hear
his breath slowing, his steps pausing. I could feel him lifting his rifle,
pointing it at my back …”
Mara has her fingers pressed against her mouth. I know she desperately wants
to bite her nails, but she refrains for my sake.
“I heard the rifle blast and I thought I’d timed it wrong, I was dead. Then I
turned around and saw the hole in the ground. He’d walked across the
deadfall just as I hoped. The rifle shot went up in the sky, and he plunged
down twenty feet into the pit.”
Mara lets out the breath she’s been holding, her sigh caressing my forearm.
“Was he dead?” she says.
“No. It took six more hours for him to actually die. I sat and waited. That was
the hardest part. He begged and pleaded. Then he cursed and screamed. Then
he pleaded again.”
“Did you want to let him out?”
“If I did, I might as well cut my own throat. It was him or me, long before the
pit.”
“What were you waiting for, then?”
“I was making sure no one else came along.”
Mara’s throat jumps as she swallows. Even with everything she knows about
me, my callousness shocks her.
“What about your father?” she asks me.
“I told him it was an accident. That I tried to run for help, but I got lost in the
woods.”
“Did he believe you?”
“He knew I would never get lost.”
“What did he say?”