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She slumped against the door.
“I’m sorry, Sherry, but I don’t.” He remembered seeing a 24-hour Walmart up the highway and drove there.
“Paul, I’m so tired of living like this.”
“I hear you. I do.”
He pulled into the Wal-mart’s massive lot and parked in a far corner. “Stay put until I come back.”
“How long will you be?”
“Not long.” He climbed out and shut the door quietly.
Ten minutes later he pulled up in a red Honda Civic. He rolled down the window. “Come on.”
She walked to the car and climbed in. “This is an upgrade at least.”
“Yeah.”
“I’m not going to ask how you got this. And actually I don’t even care anymore.” She ticked the evergreen air freshener hanging from the rearview mirror. “Anyway, how’d you get it?”
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In the old days your feet were placed in a block that got filled with cement and you were tossed in the river. Today, power drills were the torture instrument of choice. The suffering, the agony was unthinkable. And if not power drills, you were tied to a post and rats ate you alive. No, Sherry had no idea the depth of the risk.
She came out of the shower in a towel, shaking her head to one side, her hair dripping water on the carpet. “I got water stuck in my ear.”
He swallowed and just watched her.
“What’s wrong, Paul?”
He shook his head. “Nothing.”
“I always feel so much better after a shower. It reminds me of what it’s like to be human.”
He bit his lip. “Sherry, we need to talk.”
She pulled a brush across her golden hair. She was so pretty. She plopped down on the bed. “Okay. So let’s talk.”
Yeah, she didn’t know the risk. “Sherry.”
“Paul.”
“Sherry, we’ve honestly got nowhere to go from here.”
“Well, that sounds encouraging.” She rolled her eyes. “Are we done talking?”
“Sherry, please listen to me, I’m serious.”
“Okay, Paul. I’m listening—we’ve got nowhere to go.”
“What I’m saying is, we’ve been lucky staying out of the Cardis’ clutches so far, but they’re going to get us eventually.”
“Why do you say that?”
“Because they’ll stop at nothing to get revenge. Nobody escapes their reach.”
“Maybe we’ll be the first.”
“Sherry, you don’t know what they’re like.”
“I know what Al was like.” She looked at him. “Oh, don’t go taking that the

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