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Chapter 23

The Second of December

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The dry run was at nine o'clock on the second and she did not come.

That did not happen. It had never happened — not in eleven months, not in the flu, not on the morning after the night she had stood in a stopped lift and dismantled him — and by twenty past nine Nathaniel Carr had stopped looking at the door and started looking at his phone.