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Emma said, “And one of those Nutella cronuts.” She paid for her purchases and when she turned, Jonathon was gone. Jonathon knew he was a coward and he didn’t care. He preferred to work at home in his own, personal lab and test kitchen and the fact that he was too chicken shit to face Emma was a convenient excuse for him not to go into the office. He knew he couldn’t avoid her forever, but it was just too fresh in his mind and he hadn’t yet quite been able to compartmentalize it.

"Exactly. And here's the interesting part—Kellerman has a serious gambling problem. He's into a bookie named Sal Marino for about seventy grand. Marino's not the patient type, if you know what I mean." I thought about what Claire had said. Money talks louder than loyalty. If Kellerman was desperate enough, he might be willing to talk. "What else do you have on him?" "He's fifty-two, divorced twice, no kids. Lives alone in a apartment above a Chinese restaurant in Newark. Drives a fifteen-year-old Honda that should have been scrapped years ago. The guy's barely staying afloat financially despite the money Daniel's been paying him." "Because it's all going to his gambling debts."

"Not everyone who works for me is good at what they do. But it was the best I could get during the time when my family found itself completely lost. If I didn't bother to send men here, periodically, with the intention of keeping them safe, all my enemies would see this as an opportunity to hit me. Penelope's accident may have been just a fatality, a chance, but you never know. Dean thought of a way to hit me tonight. How many do you think don't think the same?” I am surprised by the frankness and honesty with which Jonathan speaks, even if I do not want to blindly believe that his intention is as puritan as he wants to show. He's always been very smart. While we are here, Hunter is in no ma

They all had their comments, the whole class started to shout and I was also starting to get annoyed because they were all talking at the same time and I couldn’t understand anything they were saying. “Can you all please shut up?! I don’t understand what you are all saying. Tsk! Undisciplined,” I shouted. They all fell silent and Clark continued to speak. “And about Jen, she is already convicted,” he continued. “With tho cases, one for taking and dealing drugs while the second one us for killing Samantha. She is the main suspect.” My classmates are all dumbfounded while I am laughing inside my head. All happened according to my plan. Should I celebrate? I bet I should.

A week passed. Maybe two. She'd stopped counting. The mornings settled into something softer. He made coffee. She edited at the kitchen island. Neither of them mentioned the night he'd told her about the women, or the jobs, or the girl he didn't kill. It sat between them—not heavy, just there. Like a door that had been opened and left that way. Then one evening, he spoke first. “The job before last,” he said. He was on the sofa with his book. She was at the kitchen island, laptop open. “The man had a daughter.”

I look at them for a long time. Then I go to my desk and I open the Meridian file and I read the first paragraph and I close the file. I sit in the dark with the city outside and the silence of a house that has only ever had one person in it and something in the third layer pressing, very quietly, against the walls of its containment. She is staying local. I told myself this was over.

Before I could say another word, the line disconnected, leaving behind nothing but the hollow beeping tone. The cold grew sharper and sharper, carving straight into my bones. Gritting my teeth, I pulled the blanket tighter around myself. Suddenly, my phone lit up with a notification. I turned my head slightly and saw that Morgan had just updated his social media. In the photo, he wore nothing but a thin short-sleeved shirt with a popsicle hanging from his mouth. 'So lucky Ms. Sheffield brought me a generator, or I would have frozen tonight too.' I stared at the picture for a long time.

(Jonathan Reyes) Jonathan Reyes were furious after he was barely escape death in his top floor office, just right after he was boasting and tried to kill, Mr.Kennard. Although he didn’t want to acknowledge nor admits out loud, for the first time ion his life, He felt extremely terrified, helpless and scared by someone. This is the first time, instead of him playing with others lives, another person were playing with his, And that person played him like a doll on a string.

And right now, one wrong thought would tip the balance toward something darker than either. Across the room, Anna watched him with her arms folded. She hadn’t said a word since sundown. Just stirred the fire. Flipped the meat. Waited. Waiting, Ethan realized, was a tactic. He hated how much he respected it. His jaw clenched. The words tasted like ash, but they came out steady. “Kellerman keeps an off-grid estate. Adirondacks. Under his wife’s maiden name. I’ll give you the coordinates.” Anna didn’t flinch. Didn’t thank him. She just waited, like she knew this moment was inevitable.

Randell stands Still for quite a while, shocked. He can’t believe that Jonathan will imprison himself inside the book. Why would he do that? What is that he is planning? Knowing Jonathan, every action that he made -even in the face of adversity- always leads to something. He can’t believe it, somehow Jonathan still outwitted him even in the last second, just when he thought that he already got him, but he is mistaken. No matter, he thought, even though Jonathan escaped him, in the end, he still left the book. Never him, whatever he is planning, I can deal with it later, for now, what matters is he got the book.