Page 146 of A Forgotten Mistake

“You act like I was an innocent party in this,” Sadie responds. “But I just… I hated them so much. I hated all of them to the point that I saw no reason. I was blind to everything else. I just wanted them to fucking end. And now that they’re all gone… it didn’t bring Christa back.”

“That’s why you find something else to live for,” Liam tells her before glancing over at me. “Took me over twenty years, but I found it.”

She shrugs. “Maybe there’s still hope yet.”

“Well, this was fun, but we have a meeting, so we have to go,” Liam says. “Have fun in prison.”

I quirk an eyebrow at him, wondering if that’s generally what someone says when they’re shipping someone off to prison, but Liam doesn’t care. Of course he doesn’t.

We head out the door and I look over at him. “What meeting do we have to get to?”

“Meeting you in my bed,” Liam says with a wink.

“You have fun with that. I need to go to my house. Do you think you can drop me off there? I’ll head over for dinner, that okay?”

“Sure. You don’t want me to hang with you?”

“I just have some shit to do, and I’ll be over. I’ll be over even faster if you make me cookies.”

“Yes, my darling. Cookies for you. Make sure you bring them to work tomorrow and eat them in front of everyone and don’t share. Moan, too.”

“Oh yes, that’s definitely my plan. Moaning was already on the table. But you know if I bring them to work I’m going to cave and give them to someone, and then we’ll have another Donna on our hands.”

“That’s true…”

We head out to Liam’s car and I slide into the passenger seat. “I feel really bad for her.”

Liam shrugs. “She can rest easy now that all of her demons are dead. My demon, on the other hand…” He trails off, doubtlessly thinking about Kenny. “I have to go testify or some shit. Sounds horrible. Would have been so much easier to just…” He draws a line over his throat. “You know?”

“No, I don’t know,” I say.

“You know… just like… pow, dead.”

“I’m still rather confused how that’s easier than going to testify.”

“It just is.”

“I wonder what will happen with him.”

“Hopefully he gets free, and I can just like… haunt him. Steadily drive him crazy. Break into his house like once a year onthe anniversary of him breaking into my house. Nowthatwould be delightful.”

“Absolutely none of that is a good idea,” I say with a grin.

“Sometimes I feel like you need to broaden your hobbies,” Liam tells me.

“Do I?Do I really?”

Liam just laughs, likely fantasizing about the two of us kidnapping Kenny.

He drives me home and drops me off, so I head into my bedroom as Lucille Pawl trots after me.

“Hey, baby girl,” I say as I drop her carrier in front of her. She hisses at it and beats it around a bit as I grab a box and toss it on the bed. I throw some clothes and books into it before closing it up and heading toward the carrier when I hear the doorbell go off. I bring the box over to the front door and set it down before opening the door and seeing that it’s Cole. I haven’t seen him since the brawl in the front yard.

“Hey,” I say.

He gives me a soft smile. “Sup.”

“How are you?”

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