The Safest Lies by Megan Miranda

Author:Megan Miranda
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Random House Children's Books
Published: 2016-05-24T07:00:00+00:00

I looked at the window again, at the bullet lodged in it. They were shooting at the corner. To break it. And they couldn’t.

“Really,” he said, and his arms tightened around me. “Nobody’s getting in.”

—

I heard someone at the back door, but this time my heart didn’t end up in my throat. The door would hold, as my mother knew it would.

I felt close to her suddenly—like her fears weren’t so hidden from me anymore. They were shadows, just outside the walls. And they were trying to get in.

Ryan was silent, and fixed in the middle of the room—away from the walls, away from the windows. But calmer. More confident. Maybe this was how it happened to my mother, too. These walls of concrete, these bulletproof windows, these bars and cameras—until she felt so safe that she became afraid to take a step beyond it.

“Come on,” I said, making my way back to the kitchen. The packed material was dry, the fuse firmly in place. “It’s ready,” I said. “One at a time—they don’t last that long.”

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