I felt it before I saw it, that cold feeling in my chest that something was terribly wrong. The safe house was supposed to be empty, just a backup location in case things went bad, but the door was open when we pulled up, swinging loose on its hinges like someone had kicked it in."Stay here," Merald said, reaching for the gun in his waistband."No." I opened my door and stepped out before he could stop me. "If they're inside, I need to see it.""Debbie—""I said no."I walked toward the open door with my hand on my stomach and my heart pounding, and I could hear Merald behind me, his footsteps heavy on the concrete. The safe house was small, just a single room with a bed and a table and a few cabinets for supplies, but it had been our emergency fallback, the place we were supposed to run to if everything else fell apart.The first thing I noticed was the smell, copper and thick, the smell of blood. The second thing I noticed was the bodies, two of them, slumped against the wall with
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