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“You want me to kill Theresa,” said Bowen.
“It’s time,” said Jones-McMartin. “She’s languished enough. It’s time to give her some peace.”
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His expression made him look older. It was his narrow eyes and the way his mouth was firmly set, like someone who knew he had to do something that was going to hurt and was just working up the will to do it.
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Jessica hated violence. She’d rather get beaten up than to do harm to someone else. That had been why she and her sister had fallen out. Jessica had taken it as a betrayal when her sister had joined the Marines.
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Barely visible over the tops of the trees, the half-moon stared down at them like a drowsy eye only half-interested in what happened below.
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Val pictured men with guns running through the woods in wide search patterns. Snarling dogs chasing her son up trees. Drones buzzing around the two of them and firing sedative darts.
They’d never stop hunting her or Braden now.
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The holograph showed a video of a baby developing inside an artificial uterus. Then the image shifted to show a man at an outdoor cafe with a boy who looked identical to him except for his skin, which was the same color blue as the midday sky.
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Just now, time seemed like the worst enemy of all.
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She held on to her husband’s hand—his surgeon’s hand. Those hands had healed many people’s bodies. Had removed her contraceptive implant. Had delivered Braden when he was born. But now they couldn’t do anything for her or for him.
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His face looked older than his age. It was his narrow eyes and the way his mouth was firmly set—like someone who knew he had to do something that was going to hurt and was just working up the will to do it.
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He still felt, still saw, still heard and tasted and smelled. But now everything was a shade darker, the dusky light a little dimmer, the glow of her green eyes, so close to his, less unearthly than before.
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