Wordle by Wordle: Day 79
Tuesday, March 19, 2024
Wordle #1004 - ABIDE
Austin’s expression turns to stone, his voice freezes over.
“I’m going to have to ask you to leave.”
He doesn’t wait for me to respond, briskly standing up from the cushion and plucking my phone off the floor in one smooth motion. He tries to press the stop button on the recording app, but I scramble to my feet and snatch the phone out of his hands before he’s able.
“If you’re not having an affair with Bree, then explain what you were doing outside Cover to Cover with her. Or at Birdsong,” I prod, recalling one of the restaurants he’d tagged among his cryptic, Bree-adjacent Instagram posts.
This paralyzes Austin for a moment, but he recovers himself quickly, straightening to his full height even though he was already towering over me. A flash of face-melting anger gleams in his eyes, hotter than a pizza roll straight out of the oven. He reaches for me but I flinch away.
“You will leave now,” Austin growls and manages to catch my arm above the elbow, his grip punishing enough to leave bruises. He pulls me toward the exit. “And if I ever see you again, I will call the police.”
I dig in my heels—not one to abide being intimidated or pushed around—and decide to go all in. Besides, I’m already getting thrown out, so what do I have to lose?
“Did you help Bree murder her husband? Or was it your idea? Was it premeditated? A crime of passion?—”
I hear a gasp from the girl at the front desk but Austin says nothing as he manhandles me out the door.
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