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“No, we’ll live. I promise you that.” He’d said it in a way that she couldn’t doubt, the same way he’d snapped his soldiers back into their rank on the helicopter. His words had been soft yet firm, ...”
“If only he’d taken one look at her and seen that they were soul mates, swept her off her feet and taken her to Las Vegas to be married in the same little chapel where Britney Spears had been. She l...”
“We’re in an underground vault, and here’s my first order: You’re going to do everything I tell you to do.”
“She’d been caught up in that image, that flash, man’s nuclear stamp, and had not really understood what happened after.”
“Olivia responded with confidence, “You’re the military. You’re in charge. Why would I be scared?”
“It’s not a war. It’s an annihilation,” he’d mumbled low for her ears only. She’d been unable to respond, only focusing on her own breath and marveling that she in fact was still breathing.”
“She’d found that holding on to him was the easiest and simplest thing to do, not thinking about the bomb, not thinking about the people it killed, not thinking about her family, and not thinking ab...”