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He never did. He’d been too scared of what he’d hear.

He remembered the night she’d made it. She’d been grounded for sneaking out to a show in Baton Rouge. He’d yelled. She’d slammed her bedroom door so hard a framed photo of her dead mother fell off the wall. Guilt had frozen him in the hallway. An hour later, she’d padded out, red-eyed, and handed him her earbuds. “Just listen. Don’t talk.” the ride m4p

His knuckles went white on the steering wheel. The truck's headlights cut a clean tunnel through the Louisiana dark, but Leo was driving blind into the past. He never did