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Quinn needed to move.
She needed to stop this. She needed to stop this.
She couldn’t.
She was going to see two people get shot in the head on the same day.
Only she didn’t think Michael was going to be able to stop this one.
The gun was in Gareth’s hand.
He cocked the hammer.
The sound of the gunfire made her jump. Tears sprang to her eyes again.
But Michael was still staring, still bleeding, still covering his younger brother.
The Guide was on the ground.
Quinn stared. Her brain couldn’t make sense of it.
Gareth was quickly creating his own blossom of red on the beige carpeting of the Merrick living room. He’d been shot in the head.
And Tyler was standing in the doorway, a gun in his hand.
“There,” he said, sounding like he was panting. “Now I don’t owe you anything anymore.”
CHAPTER 33
For the second time that day, Nick sat with Adam on the concrete step of his patio.
Now, the sun was nearing the horizon, and Quinn was in Adam’s bathroom, taking a shower.
Six inches of space separated Nick from Adam.
It felt like a mile. They’d been sitting in silence for a while.
“Are you okay with everything?” Nick finally asked.
“I’m not sure okay is the right word.” He rubbed at his jaw.
“It’s a lot. I watched someone die today.” He paused. “More than once. And very . . .” He shook his head. “Very violently.”
Nick nodded.
“Your brothers. They’ll all heal?” Adam said. “Just like—like you did?”
Another nod.
Adam’s eyes flicked over, dark and shadowed in the moon-light. “Your brother Michael can . . . get rid of the bodies?”
“Yeah.” Nick didn’t correct him to body, singular. He hadn’t told Adam exactly what had happened to the Guide in the woods. He wasn’t quite ready to deal with that himself. Nick still had no idea who she was or where she’d come from.
Or if there were more out there.
Hunter and Becca had brought her dad, Bill Chandler, back to the house when they’d called to tell them what had happened.
Bill had looked at Gareth’s body and had said to Michael,
