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Now the hair is brown again His button-down shirt is neat and clean under a boringly ordinary coat and tie, the coat and tie ofa suburban choir teacher or a dad He could be driving the kids to soccer practice or taking the babysitter hoe on his hand if you weren’t looking for it You probably wouldn’t notice the revolver he’s holding in that sa for it

But I am And I do

"II don’t understand," Tania says, looking from the revolver to his face Her expression is bewildered "Howhow did you get in here?"

I don’t blao, I’d been sure it was Jordan co toward us from the darkness I’d expected it to be Jordan

Except it’s not Jordan at all, but Gary Hall, dressed as himself, his true self, a forty-six-year-old abusive husbandwho, it turns out, can look like anyone at all

"Hello, Tatiana," he says, shten the brown knit tie with one hand, keeping the ht at us with the other "I do too It’s coht You know Mallory, don’t you? Of course you do She’s one of your little protégés Of course, the truth is, according to Bridget, that Mallory’s dad left the fa a surprise return I called ahead and ot put on the list The student at the box office was so syle dads and their teenage daughters They want everything to work out"

Tania doesn’t say anything I don’t bla on, only inside of , shifting, everythingin slow ? Everyone kept telling us we’d be safe Detective Canavan had laughed when I asked if he thought it was a good idea for Tania to go through with the Rock Off

"Hall is a thousand etting his ass bit by a million mosquitoes in Saskatchewan"

The head of Protection Services--as his name? O’Malley? O’Brian?--had stood there with his shiny buttons and badge and his blue eyes filled with tears and said he’d have everyone--everyone--on duty, watching every door

But all it takes is one door--one person looking away for one tiny second--and you realize how ile life is This ti to that night in Fischer Hall when Gavin hitto kill ave a phony name at the door and un in his hand

"What do you want?" I de, dancing and bubbling up and down ton Square Park I have no idea how I’ knees a rest But I have a feeling I’ll be resting forever soon