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“He… plane… as soon—”

I knitted ain?”

“Ready… he’s… there—”

Everything went dead then, and I looked down at the screen to see the call had been disconnected and I had zero bars

Of course I shoved my cell back in my purse and stared down at the cinnarabbed a pack of apple turnovers while I was at it

This was an adventure, right? I waswhile I learned about everything… right? So fuck the carbs and screw the thought that soood—declaredfor me

He wouldn’t find me, not when I didn’t even knohere to find s as I would be to hihost, a shadow

That should have givenhole inme?

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Evelyn

Two hours later and I was sitting on a full-size bed in an out-in-the-middle-of-nowhere motel I’d seen fro out of a horror movie, one of those that proh a hole in the shower But I’d just been freaking myself out

The front desk attendant had been the little old lady who’d been there to greet and checkthe way, ones that proest snakeskin