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“Yeah. Sure. Can I get you anything? Can I do anything?”

I shake my head. “I don’t know. Maybe I’ll go for a drive. Think. Listen to music.”

“Right now? Alone?”

“Worried about a monster stealing me?” I ask.

Fuck if that question isn’t laced with truth.

There is a monster. Except he’s not coming to get me. I’m going to him.

“You know what, Kate? Do your thing. I’ve actually got some work to catch up on. I hate working at home and at night.”

“No, that’s fine. Really. You should. Maybe I’ll grab a coffee or something, you know? Treat myself.”

Like sucking my criminal ex’s huge cock…

At the firststop sign I come to, I grab my phone and know what I have to do next.

The world of technology makes cheating on your fiancé quite the task, doesn’t it?

I wait to cringe at that awful thought but I don’t.

I open a tracking app that both Chad and I have. Some nonsensefamilyapp that a lot of parents use to be able to track their kids. Or their kids can track them. Everyone and everything feels so close and connected all the time anymore.

Just as I’m about to turn the app off, I realize my fucking phone itself is tracked too. It’s all connected. My phone is connected to my laptop, tablet… everything.

I’m visible everywhere at all times.

It makes me want to throw my phone out of the fucking window.

An idea hits me.

I put my window down and comethis closeto flicking my phone out the window.

That way I’m free and clear. And then I can have my phone be damaged and tell Chad I left it on the roof of the car and just drove off.

I hesitate.

Okay, fine, I’ll admit it.

I’m sort of afraid of Corbin.

I remember him before prison. The way he acted. His rough, mean style of caring. He showed me pleasure but in a little bit of a more subdued way than his sudden return. Yet the man hasn’t really touched me yet.

I lick the inside of my mouth.

It’s hurts a little from him hurting me.

But he didn’t hurt me. Hurting means stopping him, which I could have done.

I tell myself to keep my phone in case of an emergency.

It means taking a bit of a chance.

I open the settings and turn everything off.

Wi-Fi. Bluetooth. Cellular.