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Dead Reckoning
Category: Thriller
The fire had burned down to embers, but neither of them moved to stoke it.
A knock at the door changed everything.
She had not expected to see him again, not after all these years.
The garden had been her mother’s pride, and now it was hers.
The market was bustling with merchants, their voices a chorus of bargains and boasts.
It was the kind of night when secrets refused to stay buried.
The letter was still on the table, unopened, as it had been for three days.
The stars that night seemed closer than they had any right to be.
The end.