I thought I knew everything about him, but I couldn’t tell if he was sincere or mocking. His response knocked me back. The last thing I expected was for him to have any regard for my feelings. I was sure that he assumed I had no regard for his, not after the way I left.

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But in the next moment, what I was seeing was her feet flying up in the air and over the side of the boat. It looked like she had been trying to get her sister to shoot a picture of her with a whale tail in the background… then the boat lurched, flipping her over the side.

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Finn’s movements on the island seemed to be tracked; Carrie assuming every visit was a clandestine meeting with some woman with whom he was having an affair.

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He didn’t register the happy, sunburned faces that moved past him in the crowd of vacationers. Visible, yet invisible. He didn’t think about where he was going. He just kept moving. Walking.

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Jack snuck a look around the corner just before another round from the pistol struck the wall just below where his head had been. At the sound of the gunshot, Warren slammed into the spot he’d selected on the wall. As promised, he broke all the way though and emerged in the bedroom.

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Chestik watched as the old man pressed himself against the woman, groping her as she willingly played along. He preferred to not injure her, but Perez would not be stepping back inside his home again.

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