With a Vengeance

by Riley Sager

Sal Lawrence, Car 12, Room A Lt. Col. Jack Lapsford, Car 12, Room B Kenneth Wentworth, Car 12, Room C Herb Pulaski, Car 13, Room A Edith Gerhardt, Car 13, Room B Judd Dodge, Car 13, Room C

That, Judd realizes now, is when the trouble began, ultimately leading him to do the unthinkable. Even now, he can’t quite believe he played a key role in something so horrible. Nor can he shake the feeling this train ride is all about paying the price for his past sins.

He doesn’t want to be forced to think about what they’d done. How innocent men had died, including that Matheson boy. How their charred, mangled bodies have replaced noise and steel in his nightmares.

Anna thought she’d hate Dante for a very long time. Likely forever. But now that he’s here looking and acting the way he did all those years ago, she barely recalls the hatred. All she can remember are the times when she thought she loved Dante. Whether it was really love or merely a teenage infatuation she eventually would have gotten past, well, Anna never got the chance to find out. Now her mind races with what ifs.