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"Wrong?"

"Yes Wrong I don’t mean physically He was a beautiful little baby And se, because I worried that I would prefer hier and so alert and so beautiful"

Darius set aside his now-empty beer He popped another

"Then the accident The meteor"

"Heard about that," Darius said with interest "Like, twenty years ago, though, wasn’t it?"

"Thirteen years ago"

"Must have been so to see A meteor smashes a nuclear power plant? People must have freaked"

"You could say that," Connie said dryly "You know they still call Perdido Beach ‘fallout alley’ Naturally they told us everything was fine Well, they didn’t tell me that In fact, what they told me was that my husband, the father of my two little boys, was the only person killed"

Darius sat up, tilting his head, and leaned in "The fallout?"

"No, the actual i He was just in the wrong place at the wrong time"

"Killed by a meteor" Darius shook his head Connie knew he had seen death in Afghanistan

"After that the depression came back Worse than ever And with it this conviction, this powerful belief that there was so"

Theit iun as a sy like a psychotic sy, whispering that David was dangerous That he was evil

"I was afraid I ht harm him," Connie said

"Harsh"

"Yeah Harsh I loved him But I was afraid of him Afraid of what I would do to hiave hi tiave all "

Darius frowned "I’ve read through the Wiki There’s no David Temple I would have noticed because of the last nahtly "I never kneho had adopted him I never knehere he was Until one day I was at work, at Coates I wasn’t even eular nurse was on ht in I knew immediately Never any doubt I asked him his name He said he was Caine"

"How had he turned out? Ibad"

Connie lowered her head "He was still beautiful And very sirls flock to hi to be gallant