Chapter 9 - Driving Away Alone Under The Cold Moonlit Sky
I gently pressed the accelerator, forcing Tyler to jump out of the way as my car rolled forward down the driveway. I didn't look in the rearview mirror to watch them scramble in the dark; I kept my eyes fixed on the winding mountain road ahead.
The heater blasted warm air against my damp clothes, slowly thawing the chill that had settled deep into my bones from the pool. My phone remained silent for thirty seconds before lighting up with a relentless barrage of missed calls and frantic text messages.
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I tapped the screen, switched my phone onto 'Do Not Disturb' mode, and dropped it into the passenger seat cup holder. For the first time in four years, the crushing weight of maintaining Tyler's family vanished from my chest entirely.
The open road stretched out before me under the bright moonlight, leading back toward my own independent life in Boston.
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