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Watching hiether leads and bits of info with hi experience, and she felt closer to hinancy At first she chalked it up to actually being physically around hi calls and e-mails, but it soon became clear that Quint wanted to be around her and wanted to be a part of her life
Quint called out softly fro’s ready, if you are”
Amara was pulled from her haze of recollection “If … ah, if you wanted to eat out here, I think that’d be nice There’s a little table and chairs, and this view is fantastic”
He looked past her, his brow hiking up “You’re right That’s wonderful I’ll bring the plates and the bottle A proper dinner and drinks I feel like the last one didn’t go so well, so … let’sht”
She s iaze cast back out over the city theafter with the food and then went back to grab the bottle of local rulass
When Quint didn’t ed it off and stared out over the city Was Ha enough? Was he warm? Was he —
She had to break the silence or she’d lose it “You know, it’s been a really hard day, but this meal is wonderful Dinner is incredible I had no idea you could cook” It truly was delicious, a pan-seared steak with a fresh herb and butter sauce, and a selection of grilled local vegetables
“Thank you I’ it”
Silence again
And again, Auilty That bastard is out there so at the building he’s holed up in right now, and we have no idea”
Chapter Twenty Six
AMARA SIGHED HEAVILY AS SHE lass “Maybe you could tell ht You never said what caused the crash If it’s not too painful to talk about, I ot back, but I’, but we haven’t had a chance to talk through it If you want to I mean” Amara cleared her throat and shifted in her seat
He nodded as he leaned back in his chair, crossing one leg over the other “It’s been easier to put it out of my head, honestly I don’t remember a lot of what caue up to a certain point But if you want to talk about it, we can absolutely do that I told you some of it after dinner at the Forsythia, but that wasn’t the whole story”
A“Do you knohat actually happened? I mean, you’ve been so … I don’t know, intrepid, detective-like since we’ve gotten here Is that soive you any ideas about why the plane went down?”
“There was no need for any detective work We lost both engines We sucked up so in low visibility as it was, so there was no way to avoid it We were preparing to climb to reach a safe altitude over the mountains when it happened, and the plane prettyon anyone Anyone The feeling of … of the nose of the plane suddenly dropping down How fast it picked up speed, and hearing the captain over the speakers, trying to stay calnation in his voice He was struggling so hard to level the plane out enough to bring it down somewhere relatively safe But there was nowhere safe He never had a chance” Quint drank deeply