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in his jacket pockets.

His posture said what his mouth would not. He did not want to be here. He wanted to be in bed.

But Diane had decided, and Gerald followed. Nadine was furthest back. She held her phone at waist level, screen still glowing with the property record she had found 40 minutes earlier.

Her face was pale even in the gray scale of the camera.continue reading …