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Connelly’s as considered a kind, co the fa their habits, he’d found reason to believe it

The two young enerous young hed and enjoyed life with an apparent sense of humor and a love for people

Even for Breeds

They didn’t deserve to find their father laid out naked and so obviously tortured It would be a sight they would never forget One Gideon would have regretted leaving for them

Though where he’d found the ability to care, he wasn’t quite certain

Scott Connelly hadn’t given a dairl whose big, dark eyes watched the world with sonation Gideon had shown the scientists he’d found over the past months the same lack of mercy they had shown him But as he’d watched Connelly’s fa sorry for the wife and the sons who lived beneath the tyranny of the bastard as rarely hos

They would be at peace now

If only he could find a moment of that peace as well

Stepping froh the house as silently as he had entered it Leaving through the back door, he left the security systeerprints that could have been left

He had none

Those had been burned and peeled off long ago, leaving only calloused, roughened flesh in their place

Moving through the shadows of the backyard, he made his way to the small park several blocks from the house and then to where he had parked the black pickup he’d stolen the week before

Tossing the bag of cash and other itee

r’s seat, he started the vehicle and pulled from the darkened slot he’d parked in

He would use his own fake ID and buy a vehicle whencame and ditch the stolen truck It would make the trip ahead safer