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REID

The party roars on behind me — music thumping, glasses clinking, someone belting out an off-key rendition of some early 2000s pop hit.

I don’t turn. I don’t care.

The ocean stretches endlessly before me, dark and shifting, waves rolling in and out as if they have all the time in the world. As if they didn’t just witness Adeline press her tongue to Brooks’s skin.

My grip tightens around my gla