We all sat inside the mall eatery, squeezed into a booth that felt way too small for the amount of tension in the air. It was three of us sitting against three of them. We spent the next hour explaining everything, layer by layer, until the whole ugly truth was out on the table.
I said my own part first, and it lined up with what Malo and Sasha had already started to confess. Sasha didn't try to hide it anymore. She said the same thing she told us. Peamah had tried to force himself on her, and when she refused, he lost it. He tried to kill her right there in the woods. Sasha looked small as she spoke, swearing to us that she never meant to rip any one of our hearts out. She said she was only trying to use her power to make me and Malo calm down, like some kind of twisted intimidation to keep us from running.
