Ophelia

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OPHELIA I fall asleep in Nevada and wake up in San Diego with dawn already broken. I blink awake in the gray light and stretch as best I can against the seat belt. "We're here," Brian says cheerfully as he fights our way through already thick traffic. "How are you doing?" I do a quick sanity check. The hot stranger beside me killed my husband last night, and we escaped with Toby’s money. I'm half complicit; I helped him. But it's not like Toby didn't give me every reason. Including threatening me because his damn p**n channels went out. I can't forgive him for any of it. Can I forgive myself? Will the Cohens leave me alone? I look in the back seat. Molly yawns and blinks back at me with droopy eyelids. "Can we get cocoa?" she asks in her fluting voice, completely calm. "As soon as w

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