Page 114 of Keeping Kasey
“There’s no harm in having Ford keep an eye out,” I tell James in a tone that’s carefully detached.
He shakes his head. “If she were going to get revenge, she would’ve by now.”
“I’m not relying on that assumption.”
“I know. You’re ignoring it completely.”
“You better be very careful about what you say next,” I warn.
James knows damn well that this isn’t a topic I care to discuss.
“There’s still a lot we don’t know.”
“There’s even more wedoknow.”
We’ve been down this road before.
“I’m just saying, we never figured out why Brandon would’ve attacked Kasey if they were on the same side.”
Her name.
It’s like I’m set on fire from the inside out every single time I hear it.
“She doesn’t need a reason to make enemies,” I remind him. “It comes very naturally to her.”
While I wholeheartedly believe that, the unanswered questions still haunt me.
Why would they have been fighting if they were working together? How could a conversation between two people on the same side go so horribly that one would kill the other?
As unsatisfying as the questions are, the things we do know are far more important.
Kaseyadmittedto creating the program, and she deleted any evidence of its existence.
As far as I’m concerned, whatever fight she and Brandon had is semantics.
She’s guilty, and she ran.
“Go ahead and have Ford keep the search going, but Logan?”
I raise an eyebrow.
“Promise me we’ll move forward, whether we find her or not?”
Bywe, he meansme.
And he knows giving him my word is something I don’t take lightly.
“We’ll move forward no matter what,” I tell him. “Though I do prefer putting Kasey six feet under.”
My brother nods. “Whatever it takes to protect the family.”
Whatever it takes.
Present
Seeing Kasey again is surreal.
It’s a moment I’ve pictured a million times—imagining all of the ways I could end her life.
