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Оглавление“What were you thinking going over those falls?”
She should have expected the third degree from Ryan. Tori kept her voice low and replied, “That’s not exactly what happened.”
“So you weren’t kayaking alone? You didn’t go over the falls?”
Tori locked eyes with him. “I went to the river to travel in Sarah’s path the day she died.” She held back the furious tears that surged unexpectedly. “So I went kayaking.”
“Why do you torture yourself?” His expression twisted into one of severe pain. “Is that why you went over the falls?”
Her heart might just rip open. He knew her better than that. “How could you even think that? I planned to turn back. But someone shot at me and hit the kayak. I tried to get away, and in the end, I had nowhere else to go. The falls grabbed me. I thought I was going to die.”
Ryan’s mouth hung open as if he couldn’t quite absorb the full meaning of her words, and he appeared to search for an adequate response but came up empty.
“Someone tried to kill me.”