Page 127 of Fraud

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I’d once read somewhere that a person’s eyes were the windows to their soul.

I’d seen Killian’s soul and it was dripping with deceit.

I began to back away as he stepped closer. The door that was wide open shut behind me as I felt it push against my back with a startling finality.

This was it.

The big precipice I’d been fearing.

I’d thought that pink note of doom was a false alarm.

Turned out I was wrong.

Just a delayed reaction.

And, now, my life was about to explode.

Ready, set…boom.

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