No Exit by Taylor Adams 2

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As the clock ticks down, Dan’s paranormal investigationquickly twists into a mind-bending nightmare. He is stalkedthrough time and memory by a terrifying (and very real)demon. And as for his lost love, Adelaide? She might be theonly one who can save him …
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NO EXITA gripping thriller full of
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DEDICATIONFor Riley.
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Sent: 12/23 6:52 p.m.To: Fat_Kenny1
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7:39 p.m.December 23“Screw you, B
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“No, no, no.” She pumped the ga
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Darby almost ran it over.Her windsh
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couldn’t sink into that muck agai
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“Not since White Bend.”Her hear
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outlines of distant peaks. Craggy s
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Darby chuckled.They’d reached the
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but that’s not true. It takes yea
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highway. She knew she was lucky to
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8:17 p.m.She went back inside.Ashle
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Jesus, Darby, just turn around.Face
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wayto summon help from cellular dea
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Ashley glanced up at her over a han
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She didn’t realize Rodent Face ha
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In this tiny rest stop.All night.
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overnight in a snowy rest stop? It
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“Reminds me of a joke. What does
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Darby scooted her chair out and sto
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9:25 p.m.Darby walked to the Nightm
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Strangely, though, her body itself
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the deserted cafeteria, and took tw
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She crouched and ripped the white s
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Dangerous. She’d acted without th
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“From your house?” Darby rephra
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The girl nodded.Darby’s mind flut
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But he didn’t. He kept walking, c
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He was looking at Jay’s kennel in
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Jay didn’t blink, her bloodstaine
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media to aid the coming manhunt. Sh
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his forehead, which reminded her of
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pinned on Darby as he spoke. “You
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The time she dreamt that her throat
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flesh of his throat, or his eyes. N
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Ed blinked. “What?”“Circle ti
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these ancient ore carts, over these
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entire world teetered on a knife ed
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11:09 p.m.In the men’s restroom,
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He’d caught his breath now, and l
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this asshole. And since he suspects
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“Am I Person B?”Darby placed th
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him, to decide how to deal with us.
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Ashley reached through the security
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She wished he’d just inhale some
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Ashley swallowed. Some color was ba
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So she did — she decided to keep
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“Believe me, Jay, that’ll chang
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into the restroom? After she made k
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MIDNIGHT
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She needed to find it fast. Under t
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But she knew the pistol was just fo
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rust-eaten hinge, and it seemed to
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update. What was the timetable befo
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they’d used before, back when she
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“Afraid so.”“Well, I guess we
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And those green dragon eyes kept st
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It was just a small error, only a f
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It didn’t matter, because Ashley
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And she wasn’t even awake. She sn
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“See, Darbs, we’ll all agree th
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Every second felt volatile. She gla
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Sandi stirred again on the bench. L
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Darby shook her head sharply, squee
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Now, he reached through the securit
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fingernail around the trigger, whif
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He wasn’t sure.Please?Finally he
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But it was fine. No worries. Ashley
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hadn’t. She knew Ashley had sent
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Roofing Service, that her father
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“Shh.” Ashley moved his head, l
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Nothing.“Isn’t it funny, then?
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Lars’s eyes widened, darting from
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Darby skidded, reaching the driver
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“And you should eat a goddamn bre
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she was. She didn’t know they wer
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No answer. Only the stiff creak of
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She wished she could rewind this ho
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Lars liked it well enough. But he
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rolled on knees and elbows, kicking
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single window, the parked cars, the
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sticky, duct-taped in patches. A cr
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“With what?”“They have a gun.
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Darby grabbed his wrist, vise-tight
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they’d be leaving the cars unguar
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Perched against a vertical world of
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table and the window frame. “Ashl
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“Front window.”“Barricaded.
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enough. And she was grateful she di
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2:56 a.m.On her way back into the l
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She remembered the sharp odor of vo
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Ed knelt to Jay. “When they come,
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“He has the newest Gears of War.
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“You’re just drunk. If we try t
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“Answer me.” Darby’s voice wo
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3:33 a.m.Ed screamed: “SANDI—
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rubbing her nose. “I mean … God
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To his right, Lars took a diligent
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Sandi was in hysterics. She cried o
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She pressed the gas pedal and the F
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sounded different. They were gettin
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“What if we need to get out and r
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shards bounced. Darby banged her ja
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time bomb; a single bad moment away
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Jay peered over the door. “What i
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Jay faced her now, standing in the
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4:05 a.m.Thirty minutes.Thirty minu
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she’d once mistaken for Ashley’
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Jay cried, struggling to look away,
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made a strange sound, like a wet bu
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She nodded, and another tear hit th
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—But it was real. It was all real
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REST AREA ONE MILE.* * *“Hey.”
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“But, see, I had a plan, too.”
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“What?”“Women’s shelters. S
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makes her a liability. So we came u
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was rock-hard here, like sculpted c
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meaningless to him; you might as we
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The worst part of it all? Their she
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“No, Darby—”“Please, tell m
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a donut. She knew it might appear h
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