Murder on the Disoriented Express by Emily Lloyd-Jones Read Free Book Online Page B

a weapon for the taking. She talks to him like he’s a person, not a formula.
    The first time he saw her, she was lit up with sunlight, the first real light he’d seen in days. She’s radiant and alive and he wonders how she’s managed it. He knows what she’s survived; he can see it in the way her eyes linger on doors and windows, in the nervous twitching of her legs, in the way her lips form the word she’s taken for her name. She’s like him—a survivor.
    Alan knows his own pragmatism. He’d let another person die to keep the formula safe. He’s also pretty sure he’d kill someone, too, if it came right down to it. Extraneous things like friendship and pity and shame are meant to be cut away, left behind.
    He’s a survivor. No matter the cost.
    But unlike Alan, Ciere hasn’t kept to the shadows. She hasn’t cut herself off or become hardened. When she saw a man die, she nearly fell apart.
    She hasn’t lost her humanity and it makes Alan ache, feel a pang for something he feels like he’s never had. He’s never had a life outside of this, never wondered what it’d be like to be a whole person instead of numbers and letters.
    He can’t have a life. He can’t afford one.
    But she makes him want one.

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    This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is coincidental.
    Copyright © 2015 by Emily Lloyd-Jones
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    First Edition: June 2015
    ISBN 978-0-316-38753-8
    E3