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She started to think again about that long-ago night when Michael Campion wasn’t a client anymore They’d talked about their love and how hopeless it all was
Michael had playfully tugged at the little braid hanging down the back of her neck
“I have an idea,” he said “A way for us to be together”
“I’d do anything,” she’d said “Anything”
“Me too,” Michael had said
It was a pledge
They’d made plans over the next feeeks, plans that would take place sixwas in place, Michael left her house and just disappeared Threehe’d seen Michael at her house And then the police had cootten confused and e mess
It had been hell: jail and the trial and especially not being able to get mail or phone calls But she’d known he would wait for her And if she’d been convicted, he would have co in, used the brains and the lawyer God had given her, and played her role to the hilt
And thank you, God, she’d been acquitted
Three days ago she’d taken the blood and hair he’d sent her and put it into that letter to Yuki Castellano Now the hard part was over and Junie was traveling light She had worn boy’s clothes on the bus froht to Mexico City, and now she was on another plane, on her way to a little village on a beach in Costa Rica
This remote and enchanted place would be their new ho that someday Michael’s heart would be fixed and that paradise would last for-fricking-ever
She’d changed into a cute little sundress in the bathroohtened dark brown hair, put on the chic cat’s-eye glasses The wheels of the plane bounced on the landing strip and all the passengers began to clap Junie clapped, too, as the plane rolled to a stop
Moments later the cabin door opened and Junie stepped carefully down the steps that had been wheeled up to the aircraft Junie scanned theout at the plane from the small outdoor terminal
And there he was
He’d shaven his head, had grown a goatee, and he was brown all over froht striped shirt and cutoffs, grinning and waving, calling, “Baby, baby, over here!”
No one would ever recognize him, no one but her
This was her real life
And it was starting now
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