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We stay down, and theon…and on…and on

Slowly but surely, we venture out froet he intended and fled the scene

“Fucking hell,” I bite off, staring down at Caleb’s lifeless body I reach down, feeling for a pulse, but find none

Right then, soins talking so fast I can barely make out the words, but soon some become all too clear and all too real

The senator Shot

Like a giant puzzle all co to make the pieces fit, I stare down at Caleb’s lifeless body resting atbelow his head onto the boat’s deck, and I realize a plan far greater than what I could’ve iht

All of this The video Hadley Even the photograph of Hadley and me in the tabloid It was all a distraction so I wouldn’t be focused on the senator or guarding hiuard And I wasn’t there to stop hi that error

I’d been played…and played well, and I wasn’t particularly fucking happy about that fact either

But the stress and strain my body endures is incomparable to when I pulla text from her

I need you

Chapter 14

Hadley

The blue and red lights illuency crews rushaot here, nor do I recall when Ryder’s tea to the police I just know that right now

I drop to the foyer floor, as grief in the purest and rawest forrief that’s hidden behind a wall of shock I cannot move I can’t think of what I should do next

There’s nize a voice that breaks through the cloud of disbelief drowning me