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It rained, that day, he’d never forget. The phone ringing incessantly in the background, he gazed at the smiling couple. For the umpteenth time that night, the answering machine came on, the familiar voice tugging at him.
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Sometimes, late at night, the vision of him, standing in the rain, his image blurred through the rain streaked windshield haunted him, Jaime’s presence ever close. His scent, his supple, olive brown skin. The crucifix he wor
e around his neck and the sensation of it dragging lightly across his bare chest. Squeezing the picture, he closed his eyes, memories from that day rushing in.
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The sky gray, the air had been somewhat chilly, a little unusual for Southern Cali. For some time he’d stood before the tangle of strange workings, but, try as he may, all he saw was a dead engine. Cars, headaches with wheels, he thought, closing the hood.

"Might be your battery." Glancing around, he caught first glimpse of him, standing opposite his car. His dark, menacing eyes, seizing him, he thumbed his head up as he approached. With a flutter, Bracey stilled himself, admiring the pencil thin growth of hair, encircling his ripe red lips, the trail terminating in a goatee, be
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