No Exit by Taylor Adams 2

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Sent: 12/23 6:52 p.m.To: Fat_Kenny1964@outlook.comFrom: amagicman13@gmail.comWe’ll do it tonight. Then we’ll need a place to sleep for afew weeks. And I need to know — for sure — that you’regood for what we talked about. Send me the numbers. Thendelete this email and I’ll delete yours.I’m stuck out in a rest stop in Nowhere, Colorado, theblizzard is getting worse, and I’m about to do something thatcan’t be undone.Oh, and Merry Christmas.
DUSK
Page 2 and 3: NO EXITA gripping thriller full of
Page 4 and 5: DEDICATIONFor Riley.
Page 8 and 9: 7:39 p.m.December 23“Screw you, B
Page 10 and 11: “No, no, no.” She pumped the ga
Page 12 and 13: Darby almost ran it over.Her windsh
Page 14 and 15: couldn’t sink into that muck agai
Page 16 and 17: “Not since White Bend.”Her hear
Page 18 and 19: outlines of distant peaks. Craggy s
Page 20 and 21: Darby chuckled.They’d reached the
Page 22 and 23: but that’s not true. It takes yea
Page 24 and 25: highway. She knew she was lucky to
Page 26 and 27: 8:17 p.m.She went back inside.Ashle
Page 28 and 29: Jesus, Darby, just turn around.Face
Page 30 and 31: wayto summon help from cellular dea
Page 32 and 33: Ashley glanced up at her over a han
Page 34 and 35: She didn’t realize Rodent Face ha
Page 36 and 37: In this tiny rest stop.All night.
Page 38 and 39: overnight in a snowy rest stop? It
Page 40 and 41: “Reminds me of a joke. What does
Page 42 and 43: Darby scooted her chair out and sto
Page 44 and 45: 9:25 p.m.Darby walked to the Nightm
Page 46 and 47: Strangely, though, her body itself
Page 48 and 49: the deserted cafeteria, and took tw
Page 50 and 51: She crouched and ripped the white s
Page 52 and 53: Dangerous. She’d acted without th
Page 54 and 55: “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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Perfect darkness.Lars knelt to the
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fingernails scratching her cheek, b
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Darby held on — knowing it was st
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“Darby, I swear to God, if you re
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“It’s okay.”She hadn’t yet
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“Don’t miss.”“I won’t.”
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“Yeah, well, I lied.”THWUMP-THW
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“We could’ve gone to Idaho. Tog
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plunger. It clicked, like a gun’s
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“Oh, come on—”* * *A fireball
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“You named your car?”“I’ll
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5:44 a.m.“Daaaaarby.”Yes, Ashle
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I won’t.* * *Ashley was perplexed
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Uphill, the flaming visitor center
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“What were you going to do with J
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6:01 a.m.Ashley flinched at the gun
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DAWN
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through the truck’s windshield
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6:22 a.m.Ashley Garver flinched aga
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profound horror, he’d forgotten w
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“I said thank you.”This gave Da
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