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Chapter One He thought, again, you're not going to kill him. It was an awakening, the idea. It was like emerging from the woods into a dusk-lit clearing in your head. It was peace coming down. Felix caught him smiling, did a double take."What are you grinning at? You're like 'Kool-Aid' Quinn over there with that grin ..." Martin smiled harder, kept his eyes in the grass. Not going to kill him anymore and him never even knowing the end had been coming. Felix Pasko's enchanted life continues. They crossed toward the shed. He was innocent, Felix. Loyal. Brutal and naive. He hadn't changed at all, in thirteen years. Fee switching hands now with the rifle, patting his pockets for keys. Martin Quinn slowed, hung back, beside him. Don't ever underestimate him again, told himself. Fee said, "What about dinner?" "What's in the house?" "I meant eat on the road --" found the keys -- "or wait till the city. There's nothing inside." "In town, then." "You have an appetite." "I could eat." "Yeah, me, too" -- walking slower, Fee. Flipping the keys for the one to the padlock. Stopped, then. Turned. Stared him in the face. Martin stopped, stared him back. Thought their shoes were making a racket, like the grass got louder as the night came. Fee said, "You know what I'm thinking, right?" -- his face like something hurt him. Pained somewhere, but just a bit. The whitewashed shed glowing softly behind him, the sky, beyond that, going purple wLee, Anthony is the author of 'Martin Quinn' with ISBN 9780060090425 and ISBN 0060090421.
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