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He turned her in his aret you chocolate cake every day"
Quit? She couldn’t do it "Jack," she protested, biting back her arguhts shifted fro Jack’s face, and she stared at his pasty coht drifted up froer superimposed on his content face It was his voice in her ht, breath held as she looked at her open hand and the faint J IN OFFICE that hadn’t washed off completely
"Jack," she whispered, the taste of the chocolate and whiskey strong on her lips
Blinking fast, she leaned into hiht, and it felt as if she’d stepped out of ti
It’s a list, lovely woe of a suitedand confident, surfaced She licked her lips, tasting it The bitterness kindled h her, its source unknown "Jack," she whispered, unheard over theof desperation and loss No, betrayal Eyes wide, she looked up at Jack, squeezing his hand until he looked down at her
"What?" Jack’s content expression vanished in concern
She blinked, gaping at hih a flood of questions She tried to speak, shocked to silence when he leaned close and the scent of chocolate and whiskey suffocated her Panic unfolded Her hand hurt, and she looked at it, craripped her arht on his face made it worse Unable to look at hiuard off her He’d smelled of whiskey, and the taste of chocolate ith her still He’d choked her, and she’d killed him to save her own life But she shouldn’t be able to reht it back and made it real
"Peri, look atso he was inches away, his blue eyes worried as he gripped her arht "I’m here Look at me"
"I’m … okay," she rasped, but she wasn’t "Memory knot," she whispered, and Jack’s eyes widened in fear One hand still supporting her, he turned to the stairway Sing hard, she silently agreed When things go wrong, you
Meht triggered by scent and ih, but if it was attached to a rewrite and left unattended, it could lead to a MEP,in her subconscious fought to be re twin timelines, but drafters … Drafters would quickly lose theirhalf of everything else--to bring back one clean memory for a drafter to find closure with
That a memory knot had snarled up before Jack had even had a chance to defrag herso bad that her uard to save her life wasn’t enough It was so else
It’s a list, lovely woman, she recalled, and the taste of chocolate and whiskey rose anew "We need to go," she said, light-headed as she slid froht hundred miles to the north, but anywhere would be better than this
"Right Okay" Jack’s ar obvious about it His eyes went to their cue sticks, and she made a small sound
"Don’t you dare leave the her as she found her chancy balance and pushed through the dizzying sensation ofto beat its way to the surface
She hardly recognized the stairway, Jack al out for a smoke!" Jack said loudly to the doorive our table away"
But Peri knew they weren’t co back
The door to the club shut behind them, and Peri looked up in the ht She flushed, e afraid of ghosts "I’m okay," she said softly, and Jack shook his head, his expression in the streetlight hard as they erous," he said, pace slow "We head back now I’ the fuss
"I never said you weren’t," Jack said "But we’re still going back"
"Fine," she grumbled as she found her balance and pulled away The fresh air had revived her, but she still felt foolish, and Jack refused to leave her side, even when they found her Mantis right where they’d left it
"In you go," he said as he opened the passenger-side door for her, the bio The car chi as she slid into the leather cushions The door thumped shut with the sound of money well spent, and with her purse on her lap, she reached to start the car with a push of a button The warnoring the onboard co and question whether it should prepare to register a new driver since she was in the passenger seat, she hit the button for the heated seats and turned off the music as Jack broke their cues down and dropped thele" style="display:block" data-ad-client="ca-pub-7451196230453695" data-ad-slot="9930101810" data-ad-format="auto" data-full-width-responsive="true">