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Yet, even without that unsavory bit of knowledge, Mike still feared the curve, and with his terror already swollen with thoughts of Vic, the hairpin turn looked like the path to hell He slowed evenspeed as he entered the far side of the curve, seeing only shadows, hearing nothing but the constant growl of thunder overhead He thought he heard solance over his shoulder, but the road vanished into total blackness behind hi of the sharpest point of the curve and suddenly intense bright whiteness stabbed his eyes and the world was filled with the roar of a big engine as so hurtled around the curve at hiht and froze…this tiht stabbed his eyes as gleaht toward hian to shiver He thought it was just the coolness of the breeze, but when he wiped his fingers absently across his forehead they ca with sweat

"Oh, shit," he said

As if on cue, a fresh wave of chills raced right through hile up his neck and out his ears Gooseflesh pebbled his arms He didn’t know much about shock except that everybody always tried to loosen tight clothing and throw blankets on so to hiht scared the hell out of hi he knew about shock was that it was dangerous He didn’t know if it could kill, but it was supposed to be really bad for you He loosened his belt and huddled deeper into his suit coat, which failed utterly to war aware of the immensity of the terror that had built up inside hier had left hi bastard!" he yelled out loud Then soht his eye and he closed his mouth Beside him were the knapsacks of coke and cash and he bit down on that fact Karl couldn’t have just abandoned him Not without the junk and the take Karl wouldn’t double-​cross him and leave him alive as a witness Not Karl Not Cape May Karl, who absolutely had to skip the country or wind up twenty kinds of dead That thought made Boyd shiver even worse Karl didn’t know that he knew about Cape May, but Boyd kept his ear pretty close to the ground and he was nearly certain that the rumors were true He’d always known Karl was a sick bastard, but what had happened in Cape May was right out of a horror otten to a phone before Karl had bundled him and the others into the car and headed off to the cluster fuck at the warehouse, Boyd would haveas Little Nicky cut pieces off him

There hadn’t been tiet out of the country, and only Boyd could swing that for hi to cap me

That fact cal abandoned Afraid of as happening in his own body The gunshot wound to his left ar infected by now Might have some bits of cloth fro it took for a wounded arrene It made Boyd physically sick to think about it and he nearly puked in his own lap

He shivered again, the shudder actuallyon end, rustling and waving like the stalks of corn that stood tall and black around him

Flutter

The sound made Boyd jump, and he craned his head around so violently that it jolted his ar The pain that welled up in that one instant didn’t give a fuck for the painkilling effects of cocaine; it kicked and clawed at hi back tears, Boyd looked up, fully expecting to see Ruger standing there, grinning, and holding his gun out at arth

It took a lot for hi crow stood on the fence, inches froainst the corn, just a paleness glinting on its feathers to define its shape It cawed very softly at hi its head to one side as it stared at hihed a little It was a hollow, ih, but it was better than the screa bird," Boyd said The croed again, just as softly as before "Never-​more"

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