Chapter 106

Kaleena

Two.

I count them again.

Two.

I have counted tally marks scratched into a sketchbook. Hatch marks glowing through the back of a canvas. Stairs in a stairwell, seconds in a panic room, minutes until a man comes back across a frozen lake. Nine humiliations, then ten, then eleven.

At 5:12 a.m. ...

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