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Monster: Chapter Seventeen

Monster: Chapter Seventeen

11:57 a.m. – 13:21 to Termination

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Monster: Chapter Seventeen
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In my end is my beginning. —Mary Queen of Scots

Nick steered the Maverick up the drive toward Aunt Caroline’s house, the gravel crunching under its tires. Parking to the side of the house, he went around back and let himself into the garage.

The garage had two bays—one of them empty. Aunt Caroline would have her seven-year-old Subaru station wagon at the …

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