“Boys or girls?”
“Which is less trouble?” He leaned back to see her face.
“Depends on the age, but…you need a little girl. One who will wrap you around her finger.”
“I thought you’d already done that.”
“Just wait.”
“Okay, but…not too long. Time has a way of getting away from you. You never have as much as you think you will.”
“We’ll have enough. We’ll make it enough. I love you, Jace Nolan. I always will.”
“That isn’t gratitude talking, is it?”
“Desperation. I told you. So if you have any thought of getting away…”
He didn’t, he realized. No qualms. No doubts. Nothing but an absolute certainty this was how it was supposed to be. Maybe from the beginning.
And certainly—absolutely—to the end.
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THE SUICIDE CLUB
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Table of Contents
THE SUICIDE CLUB
Contents
Prologue
One
Two
Three
Four
Five
Six
Seven
Nine
Ten
Eleven
Twelve
Thirteen
Fourteen
Fifteen
Sixteen
Seventeen
Eighteen
Nineteen
Twenty
Twenty-One
Twenty-Two
Twenty-Three
Twenty-Four
Twenty-Five
Twenty-Six
Twenty-Seven
Twenty-Eight
Twenty-Nine
Thirty
Thirty-One