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I keep reaching into my purse for my phone, only to realize that I don’t have one anymore Nor do I have a driver’s license or a credit card, or a social security nuone, cut up into small pieces and burned

I am no one

I strip all the covers off the bed and pull on a T-shirt of Cain’s that I had in s feel like they’re about to explode

Aside from my memories, this is all I have left of hi it will be before his scent is gone

I burst out in a fresh round of ragged sobs at the thought, ether

As if it will keepapart

Chapter forty-three

CAIN

"I’ve been on that guy for al you, he’s barely left his place Aside frorocery store for two steaks, one bag of jerky, two pound of bacon, three dozen eggs, one pack of ­burgers" John ticks off Ronald Sullivan’s grocery list on his fingers to prove how good of a detective he really is, adding, "Oh, and a jug of OJ to round out his dietary needs Aside froot a GPS on his car for the tirab so John pretty hard these past teeks He’s staying at my condo, but he’s rarely there "Don’t you think that’s weird?" I say

"Of course it is! But unless he leads me somewhere, he’s useless"

"Cell phone?"

"One that he uses to phone his mother, upstate If he’s into what you say he is, then he won’t use his own phone Not unless he’s an idiot" John shrugs "You know, if Charlie is involved and she disappeared, they could be laying low for a bit, until they know their doors aren’t about to be busted down by a raid"

He has a point

"Yeah" I sigh, just as a knock sounds on er’s head pokes in She flashes John a wide, playful smile as she strolls in, her curvy frao, Cain The ceremony is in half an hour" Her voice has taken on an unusually soft timber around me since Charlie left I don’t know if it has eneral The two of the about ly, she hasn’t asked