Pip had destroyed her laptop! She did what they asked and that didn’t matter, because Barney was dead and it was her fault.

Pip curled up in her bed, dried tears staining her pale cheeks. She hasn’t left her room since her dog died, and only left to either eat or use the bathroom. She had no motivation. Then you came.

You laid beside her, your presence comforting to her. “They promised,” Pip finally speaks, her voice broken and hoarse. “I destroyed everything and they still killed him.”