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Chapter 46

Chapter 46

(BACK TO THE PRESENT)

Kin

“What happened after that, love?” Kin asked gently.

Ami continued slowly, her voice hardly discernible. “I saw the syringe on the ground and grabbed it. It had slipped from Rick’s hand when Dad pushed him against the wall. Without realising the consequences, I jabbed him with it at the side of his neck, thinking it was just a drug or perhaps anaesthesia to knock him out temporarily. He immediately went into a fit, and it lasted for a few minutes. Then, he went deathly still.”

There was a moment of silence, and I saw Ami’s face had turned pale, her skin pallid. Then she turned her forlorn eyes to me and stammered, “I...I killed him, Anakin. He…he didn’t die of suicide. It was me. I was the murderer.”