Kindle Notes & Highlights
That was the other thing I noticed about this town: people definitely liked their weapons.
Foreshadowing?
I couldn’t believe we were actually doing this. Skinny-dipping? With Galen and Mia? What if I got, uh, excited? I don’t know if I mentioned this before, but Galen was a pretty good-looking guy. The last thing in the world I wanted was to see him naked.
Barf
The water was touching me in places I’d never been touched by anyone except Liam.
What???
“Where’s the satellite phone?” I said. I was certain it had been there before. But it wasn’t there now.
The difference between a truth and a lie, that’s just about the most complicated thing in the whole world.”
She took another swallow of beer and said, very quietly, “I think I killed someone when I was thirteen years old.”
That’s when I noticed that, far below us, someone had set our cabin on fire.
“That’s the number one rule of lies. If you’re going to tell one, make damn sure it’s believable.”
“You think the simplest explanation for all this is that the longtime boyfriend of your best friend joined us at a cabin in the rain forest so he could secretly harass us? That Mia just happens to be dating a serial killer?”
Once inside, I carried Galen back into the bedroom and laid him out on the bed. I arranged the body as respectably as I could, and I closed his eyes. Then I returned to the front room, softly closing the bedroom door behind me.
Mia had killed Galen? Her version of events was a lie?
Galen’s and Mia’s bodies were dead and limp and sagging, but not Liam and me.
So I guess I have to tell you that at the exact moment when Liam died, when he fell limp for good, when whatever soul he had finally left his body . . . I liked it.
