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EMMY
He didn’t show up.
The motherfucker didn’t show up.
Had he sensed us out there on the hill? I didn’t think so, not unless he was an operator too. More likely, he had family time or work commitments, or he simply overslept, but that still didn’t make me any less annoyed after spending the night freezing my ass off.
I’d even started some rumours of my own—told Aileen that we’d heard weird noises in the forest, and Paige had got so scared that she’d gone to stay with a friend in Edinburgh while Sky and I slept in the old stable to prove there was nothing to worry about. Aileen seemed like the type of woman who’d pass gossip on, and there was no harm in giving our suspect false hope that his plan was working. Encouraging him to up his game. But so far, he hadn’t taken the bait.
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