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He considered shooting Blaine one Jake had told while they’d been sitting around the campfire that night “You shoot Richard, and Richard cuts Mr. ”Jake dismissed the transteel goalposts and turned back toward the sign. Their way took them past the Delgado house.

You don’t get a second warning. “Fire in the hole,” he said cheerfully, and before any of them could even think of covering their ears, he pulled the trigger and blew the lock off the security-bar. His voice sounded clogged and weepy. If only she could see a little better .