CHAPTER SEVENTY-FIVE KIERAN Marco called me when I was four minutes away. "She's not answering her phone," he said. "I'm outside the bookshop. Lights are on inside but the door's locked and I can see—" A pause, the kind Marco never took. "Boss, I can see her on the floor." I don't remember the next four minutes...not clearly. I remember the car going faster. I remember running a red light and someone's horn long and angry behind me. I remember my hands on the steering wheel being completely steady which was somehow the most frightening thing, the way my body went operational when everything in me was screaming. I remember thinking *not her, not her, not her*. Marco was at the door when I pulled up, shoulder already drawn back. He hit it once, twice, the third time the frame splinter
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