"Wait..." Nadine's brow furrows in confusion, lips pursed together. "There were six of them, I think, originally, but there was only one of the committee left. I killed the others, and the one left...sure as hell shouldn't have left Boulder."

Larry had responsibilities and a duty. Didn't he understand what she'd done? Why she'd done it? The risk she'd taken by making sure he wasn't hurt or worse...it hadn't just been because she didn't want to hurt him. She hadn't, she really hadn't, but if it had been necessary...

She'd left him alive for Joe as much as for her own bruised soul.