Chapter 43: A Bit Excessive

Chapter 43: A Bit Excessive

The question hung in the air between them, unanswered for a long moment as all four men went down the stairs and looked out of the living room windows.

There were bodies everywhere—dozens of them, maybe more, scattered across the lawn and driveway like discarded debris after a storm. The sunlight made everything look worse, if that was possible, highlighting the unnatural stillness, the way limbs were twisted at wrong angles, the way nothing moved except the slow drift of dust particles in the air.

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