Page 344 of Sin With Me

Another step, another shuffle.

The hem of Jane’s dress comes into view, and Eve whimpers, her body lurching as if she’s wondering the same thing I am.

“I–I can’t do this anymore,” Jane chokes out. “I’m taking the kids. We’re leaving.”

A dark laugh rumbles from my father, and I feel it down to my core. It’s one I’ve heard so many fucking times right before he beat the shit out of me.

“You’re not going anywhere.”

No.

No, no, no.

“Eve,” I rasp. “Turn it off.” But she ignores me, her body trembling as she watches the screen.

“I know what you did to Camilla,” Jane says, her voice strong.

“Mama,” Eve pleads, but her mother can’t hear her.

Tension seeps from the computer and wraps around us, squeezing all the air from my lungs.

No.

Please.

“If you know what I did to Cami, then why the fuck are you being this stupid?”

My stomach drops at the dip of his voice, the quiet anger lacing his words. I shake my head, my mouth opening and closing to beg Eve to shut it off, to stop watching before we see something we can never recover from.

There’s another soft footstep, the sound so at odds with the man it belongs to.

“I–Isaac,” Jane stammers. “The kids—” Her dress sways as she shuffles back another step. “They’ll be home any second.”

His shadow looms over the camera, and Eve whimpers. I want to rip the cord out of the fucking socket, but I can’t make myself move. It’s like watching a train wreck, I can’t look away.

“Just let us go,” Jane pleads.

“I can’t do that,” Isaac drawls.

Jane stumbles back another step, then another until she’s out of view. A muffled thud echoes like a bomb, and I know she’s backed against the wall.

No.

“There’s nowhere for you to run, sweetheart.”

Eve chokes, jolting forward as if she can claw her way through the screen into the past and protect her mother.

“Please,” Jane begs, but it falls on deaf ears.

“Fuck,” my father groans, and acidic bile rises in my throat. “I’ve always loved the way you beg.”

Shoes scrape against wood, then she’s running. My heart leaps as the sound of her feet hitting the stairs flits through the speakers.

Isaac’s body shoots forward, and it’s the first time I get a full view of my father on this video. A terror-filled scream rips out of her as her long blonde hair is wrapped around Isaac’s fist and she’s jerked back before colliding with the solid ground.

No.

No.

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