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"Olivia" My voice breaks and I clear my throat "She raisedin? That was ht until ht"

Emily’s too damn pale and those eyes are too damn wide Who the hell can process so much shit in such a short period of time, but because Emily’s quick on the draw, she does "So Olivia is like your oes raw and I can only nod Screw this "I don’t want to play this fucked-up history gao to sleep if you want I’ll take the couch"

"Oz," she says

I struhs and I accept the sound as heron fro room?" I ask

E sleep and I don’t understand why "Tellother than work for the security company, ould you do?" she counters

"Nothing The security company is what I want to do"

"Yeah, but what do you like to do? You know, in your down tiuitar"

"Don’t think I’m rock-star material? I took two months of lessons for this" I play one more chorus of "Smoke on the Water" "Why are you scared of the dark?"

"I’ll tell you if you tell me what you would do if the security coht, Es her perfectly, those skintight jeans and her silky chestnut hair tu around her shoulders Normally, I wouldn’t answer this type of question, but Eive her an opportunity to build them back up

"Deal"

"First off," she says "I’m not scared of the dark"

I raise both of h of a sense of humor to smirk "Technically, I’m scared of the co that up" I pick at the strings as if I’ brilliant, but I’ve already run throughThose twome the story now?"

"You kno on the six o’clock news they report when a dead body was found?"

Not liking where this is headed, I lay s and they vibrate beneath my skin "Yeah"

"Have you ever considered how the body’s found?"

"Can’t say I have" Until now