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Kee couldn’t find the engine start on her brain.
Archie sat calm as could be and waited on the stone wall. The light breeze left her with a chill despite the warm smell of grass in the summer sun.
“I’d take someone down who said I got on that Hawk because I slept with you. It’s the hardest thing I’ve ever done in my life, getting on that bird. How can you not hate me?”
Archie smiled, briefly. Not humor, more as if he were considering whether or not he held an emotion inside that he didn’t know about.
“Keeping up with Emily Beale is the hardest thing I’ve ever done, and I’ve been doing it for ten years now. But I did it, Kee. Whether you believe it or not, I know it. I know to the core that I’m the one who did it. Sure, Emily picked me out of the crowd and drove my ass into the grou
