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ASHLEY.
"Why did you think he would be here?" I sigh as we watch the man walk away from us with a strange look on his face. Heather shakes her head, and says, "I honestly don't know. He told me he comes here once in a while and I just... I don't know. I thought his first escape would be here. "
I lean back against the wall as I try my brother's contact again, and just like the last ten times; it says the same thing—unavailable.
Where the fuck is he?
"Do you think he could have gone to the girl?" I question Heather.
"No, " she protests. "Vincent isn't that dumb. He wouldn't chase her around. Especially not after the ugly past they had. " An ugly past I do not know. The thought brings me to the actualization that I have little to no knowledge about what goes on with my brother's life. Was I not paying attention adequately, or was he being discreet about it?<
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