Where They Lie (Nora McTavish, #1)

by Joe Hart

“They’re thinking the crash wasn’t an accident.”

Teachers are something called mandated reporters. If they see a kid coming in with bruises and cuts that aren’t natural, they are legally obligated to alert the authorities. Authorities like me.

wasn’t legally culpable in that family’s demise. But legality didn’t enter into the inner sanctum where things held true sway. Those 2:00 a.m. thoughts and the sharp edges of guilt weren’t admissible in court, but they were a prison all their own. He wouldn’t want to hear it, but we are all responsible in one way or another.

Ofc she feels responsible for the family fksterung rgese kids ...

looked like fluid weeping from a wound. “I don’t know why.” She paused, struggling to see through her tears, to study the room as if trying to hold on to consciousness. “I tried .

Trued ti stop ehoo

“Andrea,” she said, and found me with her drug-lacquered gaze one last time before drifting away. “Andrea

could keep our attention focused on her, we wouldn’t notice the words.

Andrea did it. Andrea crashed the plane. Andrea, the punk, the troubled child, the battered girl who refused to ever be hurt again, so she hurt others. She’d crashed the plane. I’d wanted to put myself at ease

Those little numerals under a video or at the bottom of a blog saying how many people love you. They’re pain blockers, dopamine hits; they’re a drug for the creator. They are digital endorphins, not human beings with feelings and aspirations and lives of

Thise metrics of vaudstion

You can go home. Not all is lost. This family’s tragedy isn’t your fault. You have your own tragedy; you don’t need theirs too. Just walk away.

She put everything on her YouTube channel trying to be ‘the perfect family.’” Taylor threw air quotes with her fingers. “You don’t think they were?” She studied me, maybe wondering if I was serious or not. “There’s no such thing.”

Dont belirve everythung you see

For reasons we might never understand, Andrea forced our plane down that day. She was deeply disturbed and not only wanted to end her life, but to end the rest of her family’s lives as well.

Abdrea is scady

panted, looking up at me with questioning eyes. I cursed under my breath and looked out the window again. The shadow was gone.

Shes geing stalked or followed pergaos sndrea??

amniotic

I needed to know if someone was still in my goddamned house. Now he

“It comes down to help,” I said. “A lot of people like to pretend they never needed help, never got it, but that’s bullshit. Almost no one gets anywhere without help. And it’s the first thing people forget once they get where they’re going.”

Yes, four. I don’t know why Andrea did what she did, and maybe I’ll never know, but what I won’t do is hold hatred in my heart for her. She was a tortured young woman who did something monstrous, but she was suffering too. And now she’s gone.

think he’s the one who’s been following me and broke in.”

“There’s a concern Justin was abusing prescription drugs.”