Midnight Blue
Simone van der Vlugt
"I can’t rely on Jacob keeping his mouth shut, I have to leave."
" She doesn’t answer any more questions until after she herds her confused, concerned dads inside the cabin."
"Prosecutor Jana Berzelius sat on one of the chairs in the broadcast studio with her legs crossed."
"A simple nibble, one of hundreds that had poked at my skin, but this one came with a virus."
"If it please the Court: Your Honors, I stand before you today to tell the story of what happened."
"Éric set a police homicide report on her late father’s worn mahogany desk."
"As the team unpacked things from the SUV and distributed them for carrying down the trail, I walked a little way off to grab a cigarette."
"That was the statement I gave to the police, sitting in the police station somewhere off the A1 in France. It was the truth. But not quite the whole truth."
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