Chapter 50 Cheap Tricks

• Upon seeing Shawn, Jojo felt her bottled-up grievances surge forth like a dam breaking.
• Without knowing where she got the strength, she flung herself at him, clinging tightly, her entire body trembling against his. Her voice quivered as she sobbed, "Mr. Lawson, I thought you didn't care about me anymore. I called you so many times—why did you take so long to come?"
• She had been so close, so dangerously close, to experiencing that nightmare all over again.