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  1. 15

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    They’re three weeks into their partnership when Rob first sees a uniform flirt with Cassie.

     

    Rob cockblocks Cassie for reasons that definitely aren't romantic. Cassie cockblocks herself for reasons she won't examine. They screw themselves, and they screw each other.

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  2. 16

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    He says, “Oh, Cassie,” and he looks into the infinite darkness of her eyes, at all her hauntings he never got to learn about, at all the hurt he put into them with his own wretched hands, and he sees the terrible web of blood spreading ugly and bright across her cheek, the red lines marked over her skin by Rosalind Devlin’s fingernails, and he watches her body give in to the gravitational pull of his own for one precious instant, and then he watches her remember.

     

    An alternate ending.

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      Cassie stays in his head. The uncertainty between their lips when he pulled back from the kiss he’d given her; the assurance in the way she’d closed that tiny space and kissed him back. The gasp of a laugh she must save for her lovers, caught between two pillows. The curve of her waist, not pronounced but blissful all the same. Her hands on his shoulders, her nails scraping his skin. The way she’d caught her tongue between her teeth and her eyes had landed on his, and he hadn’t needed to ask her a single question - what do you like, is that good, are you close - because he could read her, the flush creeping over her cleavage, the heel digging into his back, the bite of her teeth into his bottom lip. She came for him without a single word passing between them, and all it took for her to take him with her was his name, tumbling out of her mouth hot and desperate and pressed into his cheekbone.

      He’d never known his name, the one he’d chosen as a lost kid at a boarding school, could sound like that. He’d never known that he’d been waiting, weeks or months or maybe even years, for Cassie to say his name just like that. He’d wanted to bottle it up. He would have begged for it, that acute, unblemished sound.

  3. 26

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    She had the recorder in her hands but put it down without starting it up. “You look old,” she said instead, folding her fingers together, and I was so startled I burst out laughing. I did look old: my hair was in-between black and silver, and there were lines etched all over my face. I saw myself every day in the mirror, and every day I looked older.

    “Thanks,” I said, and when she smiled it was just a fragmentary thing, there and then gone again, sad but not bitter, not exactly.

    It was inevitable, really, that they were going to meet again.

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  4. 5

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    Rob and Cassie's story, told in kisses.

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  5. 5

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    Every detective has a type of case that's exceptionally tough for them to deal with. They don't always talk about the reasons why.

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  6. 7

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    "Cassie Maddox had an unfortunate habit of running into people she shouldn’t have."

    aka four times Cassie ran into people from her past and it sucked plus one time she ran into someone and it didn't

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  7. 2

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    I think it's compliant with both the book "In the Woods" and "Dublin Murders" (the TV show). I feel like it would just have a slightly different preface either way. What happened during Cassie and Rob's night together? Be warned, there be some smut ahead (though not too explicit). Rob's POV.

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  8. 10

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    They live in a haunted house.

     

    Sam, Cassie, and sometimes Rob, in the aftermath.

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  9. 6

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    three years after katy devlin's murder, another crime knocks something lose for Cassie, Sam and Rob

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  10. 4

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    He wakes in the deepest hours of the night, when the darkness in his flat is like a living thing. His heart slams into his ribs until he grows accustomed to its ache, and his fingers grapple for the switch on his lamp, like he’s a child again, afraid of the dark, afraid of the woods.

    Rob, after all of it.

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  11. 2

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    I never once doubted that we were drift compatible.

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  12. 2

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    In the Woods, Cassie’s POV and The Likeness, Rob’s POV.

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  13. 1

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    I really didn't like how they left Dublin Murders. So I wrote what I hope is a better ending. Cassie's POV. Also book compliant, though I used "Reilly" instead of "Ryan" as Rob's last name.

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  14. 5

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    “Your dream partner grows in the back of your mind, secret, like your dream girl. Mine grew up with violin lessons, floor-to-high-ceiling books, red setters, a confidence he took for granted and a dry sense of humor no one but me would get. Mine was everything that wasn’t Conway, and I would’ve bet hers was everything that wasn’t me. But the click was there. Maybe, just for a few days, we could be good enough for each other." – Stephen Moran, The Secret Place

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  15. 7

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    Cassie does her best Lexie. Lexie does her best Cassie. Rob tries to do his worst. Everyone has always had a few bluffs to be called, but Maddox needs no reminder of that.

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  16. 3

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    "That was when I felt it: that needle-fine vibration, starting in my temples and moving down the bones into my eardrums. Some detectives feel it in the backs of their necks, some get it in the hair on their arms—I know one poor sap who gets it in the bladder, which can be inconvenient—but all the good ones feel it somewhere. It gets me in the skull bones. Call it what you want—social deviance, psychological disturbance, the animal within, evil if you believe in that: it’s the thing we spend our lives chasing. All the training in the world won’t give you that warning when it comes close. You get it or you don’t. I took a quick look at Richie: grimacing and licking his lips, like an animal that’s tasted something putrid. He got it in his mouth, which he would need to learn to hide, but at least he got it." -- Mick "Scorcher" Kennedy, Broken Harbour

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  17. 4

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    Does what it says on the tin.

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  18. 8

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    Sometimes the wood gives something back.

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  19. 2

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    Rob reflects on having had some, most, all and none of Cassie.

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  20. 1

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    Rob, after Cassie.

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