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“This is Bob,” Bellamy informed me “Who has more secrets than I realized,” he added

“Oh, hi, Bob Thanks for trying to savemyself”

“See that Go on Go in Get cleaned up I got this,” he said, shuffling aith the body

“Do I want to know?” I asked, not sure ht about then

“I couldn’t tell you even if you wanted to,” Bellamy said

With the light on him, I could see the pain in his eyes And, ad to settle in on me too

“You two go in,” Gunner said, nodding toward the cabin “Get cleaned up, but don’t both fall asleep until we are back here to keep an eye There are still two men out there”

“Right,” I agreed, tensing again

“I’ve got a gun this tih,” Bellamy told me as we hobbled inside the bloodstained crime scene of a cabin

“Good Because if anyone else co more than raise my arm”

“I’ht there with you, love,” he said as we made our way into the bathroom

We decided to take turns showering And because I was the one with little pieces of brain ments in their hair, Bellao first, holding the gun on his knee as I started to strip

“Hey, Bellaot into the shower

“Yeah, love?”

“Reain?”

“I believe it involved a knife and my urethra”

“I take it back When this is all over, drug ain”

“Well, love, if there is one thing I can do, it’s that”

CHAPTER TWENTY

Shawn - 3 days

The anseren’t as over-the-top and therefore satisfying as I guess I’d built the issue up to be in my head

After we got back to New Jersey and Bellaot to work, the truth came out in banal trickles of information that made the whole infiltration and attack seem a lot less crazy and unexpected