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I awoke to the sound of a phone buzzing.

Pulling in a breath and pulling myself up at the waist,

I peered around in surprise, looking for Donovan.

My skull throbbed like a jackhammer was inside it, pounding into my brain.

The last thing I remembered was Donovan firing a gun directly at my head. I raised my right hand to my face feeling for damage. My face was fine. Then I realized

I was using my right hand, holding it out and looking down at it. I saw no evidence that it had ever separated.

The only logical explanation was that I'd hallucinated the whole thing.

I heard my phone vibrating.

I reached for my phone. I pulled it out to see that I'd missed several calls for my boss.

But there was no call coming through now. Yet the buzzing continued.

Getting to my feet, I peered over the fallen tree to see Donovan lying on the ground.

His face discolored and his throat collapsed.

He was dead.

His gun lay nearby, and it was his phone that was vibrating.

It was clear I hadn't hallucinated anything.

But that left many questions to be answered.

I recalled Donovan and Winslow's plan,

and I guessed the phone ringing was Winslow calling to say

he was finished at the house.

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