Chapter 17

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Chapter 17 Blind Run They heard the gunshots, screams so distant they were barely audible, and they bolted down the steps. Ryan saw the idling Jeep and paused at the bottom of the steps. The temptation to grab Jim by the back of the neck and drag him to it, and at least save their own lives, was almost too strong an impulse to resist. But that opportunity expired as Jim passed him, running past cabins, toward the lake trail. I could still go, he thought. It would be the smart thing to do. But he only stood there, turning first to watch Jim passing the last cabin, then turning back to the headlights of the idling Jeep. Light, safely, escape. Darkness, danger, death. Ryan chose. Heather and Susan stopped. “Camp?” Susan said. “I think so.” Heather tried to gauge the distance of

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