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Chapter One

Another dead end!

Preacher storht to his desk He stared down at the file on top, the last known picture of Robin, and threw the entire file across the roorabbed a bottle of whiskey and sat on his sofa, drinking

“Now isn’t the ti your senses,” he said

“Nah, well, it’s a good start seeing as we’ve got absolutely nothing else to work on We’re dead in the water and we’ve even got Billy checking for bodies to match Robin’s description” Bear tilted the bottle and drank deeply “Let’s face it, we’re fucking screwed on ideas We can’t save her She’s gone”

“I don’t believe that”

“When are you going to realize you can’t save her? She’s dead, probably at the botto lake, or even worse, she’s been sold like a piece of cattle, Preach Robin is gone”

“I’ive up on her!”

“It’s been two years, Preacher When are you going to realize we’re fighting dead ends all the tione and you’re crazy to think Reaper would keep her as so Do you think she’d even want to be alive now?” Bear got to his feet

Two years

Two fucking years Robin had been gone and he couldn’t find her The moment Reaper disappeared, he hadn’t been able to locate her It was like Reaper disappeared off thefavors to try to find her again

“I can’t give up,” he said

“I know” Bear looked down at his whiskey bottle “Not a ret what happened I was so focused on ured she’d be happy being my old lady that I wouldn’t have to care,” he said He snorted “I should have known, really She’d never loved me Had only used me”