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mber... everything." The room went still, the serious nature of those words hanging in the air. Alex's face lost color, and

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wn the hallway. We have to have a talk. Just now. Alex nodded blankly as Sarah led him to a plain consulting room. Sarah spun around him

aised a series of pictures. "Let's start with these," she whispered, and her voice was icy. She set them on the table between them: surveillance pic

ff. It upset me to see it just... Alex nodded, a sour smile playing over his lips. "I realized you were too clever to fool for eternity." "Why, Alex?" How then is t

e out of hand. "I never implied for it to go this far," Alex said, his voice laden with feeling. "But every action I took to try to right things seemed to pull me more into the darkness," I added. Sarah tune

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e your understanding. To help me to fix this." Before Sarah could answer, her phone buzzed with a message from her b

i really impacted both of them hard. Everything they thought they understood was failing all around them. Sarah rolled over instantly, unable to breathe. Sarah? In a minute

eave this place. They happened onto the hallway among turmoil. One end erupted in smoke, and people were running in that direction and another. "What's going on?" asked Sarah staggered between compressions. Alex tur

hing down. But principal-" 'Do it!' Alex ended the call and focused fully on Sarah. "We are approaching closely. Holding on tightly is important. They broke through the panic escape into the cold evening breeze. Their brief r

eness My fiancée is pregnant. Let her leave; I will follow quietly. Martinez laughed, a frigid, cruel sound. "Oh, I do not think so. Our plans call for both of yo

le. He had just one split second to decide on something that would change everything. As Martinez grinned and raised his firearm, Alex made

last clear thought was of the kids he might never see again falling. The world changed as the edges darkened. Sarah's face was the last thing Martinez's

rning to him as he passed out: Might he at any time truly save the ones he loved, or had his trap of misdir