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Gabe shook his head "Probably not"

Troy kept his voice down as he spoke "When they got his body down fro fan, they took the belt off You probably didn’t see this because of where he was hanging and because of the belt, but"

A chill skated down Lucian’s spine as he glanced at his brother "But what?"

"There were marks on his neck" Troy drew in a deep breath "Around where the belt was They look like scratches That ot hihts, or he didn’t put that belt around his neck in the first place"

Chapter 3

"Why do you have to leaveout her lower lip as the bright blue drink sloshed over the ri to listen to hbors from hell or when I openly objectify the really hot pharhed at her coworker--well, her ex-coworker as of two hours ago She and several of the nurses and staff from the center were at the bar a few blocks fro away party Which was also turning into as going to have the worse hangover in the

Julia’s bets were on Anna

"You still have Susan She appreciates your tales of tribulations and she also likes checking out the reps"

"Everyone likes checking theot to live vicariously through i that nasty kind of sex thaton her charinned and then took a healthy gulp of her drink "And I can’t try to fix Susan up with any of them"

"Lucky her, because those dates never turned out well," Julia re or ended up being no shows There had been no in-betweens, and definitely no nasty sex that had left her needing a Tylenol the next day

Julia leaned forward, placing her elbows on the round, high-top table The huroup had spread throughout the bar The congratulations cake soht with the revealed "I aing breath

"I really can’t believe you’re doing this" Anna leaned into her, sighing

In all honesty, a huge part of Julia couldn’t believe she had quit her safe, secure nursing job and taken an in-home one several states away, in a different time zone The decision had been so entirely out of character that her parents thought she was having some kind of midlife crisis a decade too soon

The decision to apply for a traveling nursing job had been fueled by an empty bottle of wine anda keen sense of desperation, a deep, al in her life to change She’d alency, so the call that cao had been a shock There was a job in Louisiana, in home, and offered the kind of pay that nearly floored her

Julia’s initial reaction was to turn it down, but she didn’t listen to that duht, the voice that caused every step of her life to be tooa ton of forency assured her were common with certain situations, today had been her final day at the assisted living facility where she’d worked for the last three years And that also meant that today was the last day of normalcy for her, because she’d done the unthinkable

Well, at least for her it was since she’d lived like she was scared