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excerpt from DEAD MAN'S TOUCH
I paused at the end of the hall and looked through the one-way glass in the door that opens into the lobby. A lone man sat in one of the chairs with his elbows on his knees and his head bowed. When I recognized him, all of the emotions that I’d managed to bottled up and smother under a layer of cold reasoning rose to the surface and threatened to loosen any semblance of control I’d managed to latch onto.
I swallowed and blinked to focus my eyes, and when I opened the door, Kessler stood and turned toward me.
He hesitated, then stepped forward and put his arm around my shoulders. “You okay?”
I nodded because I didn’t trust my voice. This man, who’d been a complete stranger as little as three weeks ago, meant more to me than I could possibly imagine.
Kessler led me toward the exit. “Where do you want to go?”
“Home. I need to take a shower and change, then I want to go back to the track.”
“Why?”
If I didn’t go now, and face what had happened head on, the odds were good that I never would. “Because I need to.”
Kessler ushered me through the double doors, and I paused on the sidewalk and squinted against the sun that warmed my skin and shone brightly in a cloudless sky. The air was so clean and still, even the sounds of birds and sporadic voices and traffic noise carried clear and true, and I was momentarily startled to see that life had proceeded uninterrupted and uncaring after the horror of last night.
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Columbia Horse Center is the "real-life" Foxdale Farm, Steve's base of operation.
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