If Liannan killed Alan, she was the one who was going to have to carry the news back to Nick. It would be all her fault. She shut her eyes and tried to concentrate on the music, while Alan’s death played out against her eyelids. “Mae, are you asleep?” Alan asked, at which point Mae opened her eyes, scrambled up on her knees, and punched him in the chest. “No, I was lying back contemplating the fact of your death and listening to some truly embarrassing music!” She pulled out the earbuds and turned off her iPod, shoving it into her pocket to hide the evidence. Alan looked hideously tired, gray shadows under his eyes, as if someone had rubbed their dusty thumbs over the tender places directly below his lashes, but he smiled. “What were you listening to?” “I don’t wish to discuss it at this time,” she said loftily. What she did want to do was give Alan a hug, hold on hard to make sure he was real and alive after all the horrors she had been imagining, but he looked like he might break or fall down if she touched him.
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