ce was a low growl. "Are you really willin

e couldn't form words. His wife, Chelsi, had finally succumb

the screen. He was older, with kind eyes and a famil

, listen to me. This isn't you. The woman I trained, the b

in. Unimaginable pain. I saw Dustin on my table. I prepared his body my

had guided me, who had celebrated my successes and comforted me

glance he shot toward Bentley Shannon. It was a l

e betrayal was so prof

cal examiner. You looked me in the eye and told me my s

Why would all these people line up to pro

picture of sorrowful sincerity. "Dustin was a good kid, b

her look. Then, another perso

od ran

e girl he was going to marry. The girl who was o

e and trembling, ref

Hooper said softly. "T

barely audible. "He had been for a while. The pressure of his scholarship, of trying

erizing pen still in my

e campus, the team, the future he was building. He talked about his plans to go pro, to buy me

ther, more cruel, m