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    What if the first kid Briggs picked up wasn't Dean but a boy who went by the name of Neil Josten?

    What if there were two sons of murders on the team? Two master liars? Two people who looked at math and called it fun?

    What if there were two people who thought of their mother and then thought of her murder?

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    "And then there's Neil."

    The shift in how he said it.

    "Neil," she repeated.

    "Briggs's kid," Michael said. "Sort of. He's—" He stopped. "He's hard to explain."

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    Five shots. She heard them before she understood what they were — the crack of gunfire in an enclosed space, the way it blanked the ears and replaced everything with a single ringing note. She'd turned before the sound finished, and what she saw was ⏹⏹⏹⏹⏹⏹⏹ on the floor with his arm outstretched and his face the colour of old wax and his eyes fixed on the far wall.

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    I have to read the books first 😏

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