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I washeda cracked old bar of soap, and hung them to dry, and then wandered back into the bedroom, a torapped around oons She looked me up and down

"Nice," she said slowly I was flattered for a second, but then the reality of her and this carinned and the other guy chuckled Anne's eyes narrowed

"Give me your phone and your watch," she said shortly "And just try to resist Please"

"Take them," I pointed to where they lay on the bed "The phone died a couple of hours ago anyway" I shrugged

Anne nodded to one of her goons, and he pocketed the items

"Where are your clothes?" she asked

"In the bathroorunted and stalked into the bathroo wet," he called out

"Fine," said Anne, and she turned on her heel and left The goons glared at er I wasn't about to let theured that Anne would want me in one piece at the end of all of this, so there was a li

I went back into the bathrooain Snake Eyes had duhts off and crawled into bed, and despite all the dra to enjoy the next few days, I fell asleep within us

Five hundred o before our strange connection fizzled out to a vague awareness the other's presence Barriers didn't seeht while Rebecca slept, I had taken Oliver to the isolated farotten to dispose of his corpse in all the manic violence that had erupted in the aftermath of his kidnap of Rebecca I knew that the old tenant of the farm was more than half blind and half deaf, but I had no opportunity to assess his sense of s flesh in the outbuildings a few hundred metres from his house

Fortunately it was too early in the year for the weather to have ih to allow much decomposition, and James' carcass was half frozen and hardly reeked at all I wrapped it in a couple of old feed bags and carried it outside toa few extra circular plots during the suh to take a body or two as well as a tree on top of it all I even had a s nearby for occasions such as these Doing my bit for the environment, you could say I had to break a few bones to fit James in the hole, but he slotted in nicely after a few tries, and was easily covered with several spades of earth and a young apple tree