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CHAPTER 71

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The drive back took two hours.

She did not turn the radio on. She did not call Cameron. She drove and let the road be quiet and let the photograph sit inside her mind the way a stone sits at the bottom of still water — not moving, not going anywhere, just changing the weight of everything above it.

James Harper. Smiling.

Standing right beside Robert Sinclair.

She thought about everything her father had told her when she came back to the family. The warmth in his face when she walked through tha
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    They drove back to the city in the early morning.Cameron drove. His side was bandaged and his shoulder from the night before was bandaged and she thought, looking at him in the grey dawn light, that he looked like someone who had been in a war. Not dramatically. Just — worn. The specific texture of a person who has absorbed a great deal in a short time and is managing it with the same steady competence they apply to everything else.She watched the road.She thought about Eric. She let herself think about him properly — not the Eric of the last year, the one who had become Robert's instrument, but the one before that. The one she had said yes to. The one who had made her laugh in the first year. The one who had been, she understood now, always somewhat hollow at the centre — always looking outward for the thing that would make him feel like enough.She did not grieve that person the way you grieve someone you have lost. She grieved him the way you grieve someone you had already been

  • Killed And Reborn, I Found True Love    CHAPTER 95

    Subject is down meant wounded, not dead. Not yet.The deputies had found Eric on the cabin floor — a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the side, which the paramedics who arrived twelve minutes later described as serious but survivable if they moved quickly. They moved quickly. The county hospital was forty miles south and the air ambulance made it in eighteen minutes and Eric went directly into surgery while Nyla and Cameron followed by road in the second ambulance — Cameron refusing, with polite finality, to be transported separately from the situation.The hospital was small and clean and smelled of pine sap and antiseptic in a ratio that suggested it served a community that spent a lot of time outdoors doing things that sometimes went wrong.They waited.Cameron's side wound was treated in an examination room while they waited for news on Eric. A different doctor this time, younger, who worked with brisk efficiency and told Cameron in a tone that suggested she said this often that he

  • Killed And Reborn, I Found True Love    CHAPTER 94

    She called back immediately.The call went to voicemail.She called Tobias before the voicemail message had finished. He picked up in one ring."I heard it," he said. He was already moving — she could hear it in his voice, the particular compression of someone in motion. "I'm forty minutes out. I'm going.""I'm coming too.""Nyla—""I'm coming," she said. "Call it in to the county sheriff on the way. Don't wait for me."She was in her car in four minutes. The city was early morning quiet and she drove through it faster than she should have and did not think about anything except the road and the ninety miles of it and the forty minutes Tobias had said and whether forty minutes was close enough or not close enough and what the word close enough even meant in this context.She tried Cameron again at the first red light.Voicemail.She tried again twenty minutes into the highway.Voicemail.She told herself what she knew. She had heard one shot. A single shot. She had not heard Cameron's

  • Killed And Reborn, I Found True Love    CHAPTER 93

    Cameron insisted on going alone.She understood the logic. She did not like it. Those two things existed at the same time without resolving each other, and she had learned — imperfectly, reluctantly — that some arguments were worth having and some were not, and that knowing the difference was one of the harder skills she had acquired in the past year.She made her case once, clearly. He heard it and responded with his own case, equally clearly. His reasoning was this: Eric had fired at him the night before. Eric had not fired at Nyla. Whatever Eric felt toward Cameron was direct and hot — the specific hatred of a man who saw Cameron as the thing standing between himself and the person he wanted to destroy. Walking into that cabin with Nyla present would change the dynamics in unpredictable ways."If I go alone," Cameron said, "he might talk. If you're there, he'll perform."She thought about that. She thought about the television interview — Eric composed and deliberate and choosing e

  • Killed And Reborn, I Found True Love    CHAPTER 92

    He was out in fifty-one hours.Not forty-eight. Fifty-one. As if the extra three were a small mercy his lawyers had arranged specifically to make the point that forty-eight had always been approximate.Nyla heard about it from Patricia Osei at six in the morning — a call that began with a pause long enough that she understood the news before the words arrived."Bail was granted at eleven last night," Patricia said. "The hearing was expedited. His legal team argued procedural grounds on the warrant timeline and the judge agreed to set bail at eight million pending review." Another pause. "He posted it within the hour.""Eight million," Cameron said from across the kitchen. He had heard it through the phone."To Robert Sinclair," Patricia said, "eight million is a Tuesday."The bail conditions were strict — surrender of passport, daily check-ins, no contact with known associates named in the indictment. Robert's legal team had agreed to all of it without argument, which Patricia said wa

  • Killed And Reborn, I Found True Love    CHAPTER 91

    Cameron insisted on driving himself despite the shoulder and she let him because arguing about it would have cost them five minutes they didn't have and because she had seen the way he moved and understood that the wound was real but not incapacitating. She sat in the passenger seat with Reeves on the phone and Tobias following three cars behind and the city thinning around them as they left the lights of the centre behind.Reeves had moved quickly once the authorisation cleared. Two vehicles of federal agents were already converging on the airstrip from the south. The charter company had been contacted under the guise of a routine flight safety inspection — enough to delay boarding by forty minutes without alerting Robert directly."He's already at the terminal," Reeves said. "Private lounge. His lawyers are with him. He has three pieces of luggage.""He was planning to be gone a long time," Nyla said."Or permanently," Cameron said. He said it without inflection. Just the plain arit

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    The first creditor called three days after the bankruptcy filing."Mr. Harper? This is First National Bank calling about your outstanding loan. We need to discuss payment arrangements.""I filed for bankruptcy," Eric said."Corporate bankruptcy. Not personal bankruptcy. Your personal guarantees on

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    The bankruptcy filing happened on a Tuesday morning.Eric's lawyer called at eight. "The paperwork is being filed today. Once it hits the courts, it becomes public record. The media will pick it up within hours.""I understand," Eric said."I am sorry it came to this."Eric hung up without respondi

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  • Killed And Reborn, I Found True Love    CHAPTER 12

    Eric was pacing in the living room when Nyla walked through the door."Where have you been?" His voice was sharp with barely controlled panic. "You have been gone for hours. I called you three times.""I went out," Nyla said, setting her purse down."Out where?""Shopping.""Shopping." Eric stared

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    Eric was being unbearably sweet."You look absolutely stunning tonight," Eric said for the fourth time. "That dress is perfect on you."Nyla smiled without warmth. "Thank you."When they arrived at the Grand Plaza Hotel, Eric practically leaped out to open her door again. He offered his arm. Smiled

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