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"Any clues present the a solicitor for probate, wills and trusts and such, everything was in order as you would i just a little too tidy about it Like maybe he knew his time was marked And it very well could have been his heart Brynne knew he took blood-pressure medication and she worried about hiuy was very fit"

"Hmmmm The only people ould benefited from his death are Senator Oakley’s caoes to Brynne--the house, the cars, the invest if Toainst Oakley"

"Like a videotaped deposition?"

"Yeahexactly like that May know to with his business partner in the o over the trust, then the funeral and service It’s gonna be a long fking day"

"When are you co up, the red-eye to nervous I’m out of my element"

"Right Give her our condolences, please Ring if you need me I’m here"

"Thankssee you in twenty-four"

I ended the call and lit a second clove, the sht air I s back to a place I’d not been to for a long ti is a horrific way to go out Well, it is if you’re conscious This was so as water invades your nose and mouth The i breath The pain of lungs utterly depleted of oxygen

I think the Afghans experimented onIt wasn’t their preferredme of sleep for what seemed like weeks at a tis

I looked up at the stars and thought of her My el up there somewhere I knew this Spirituality is deeply personal and I needed no other confirmation of what I believed other than what I knew to be real insideoverto cut off ht now Later

I got up quickly and stubbed out ie I tucked the butts back in the pack and went inside my father-in-law’s nice Aain, but ironically, one of the ainst all the others in the whole of my life, had been with hiraph

As I went back in to crawl into bed with Brynne, I prayed I did I prayed that Tom Bennett had been unconscious when he left this world