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and tidying the kitchen while Karen got stoned and watched
headline news.
Karen and Drew, according to a fond habit, read in bed until
sleepy. Drew set his engineering manual aside in mere minutes.
He rested undisturbed as Karen turned and twisted Nagisa's way through
the thriller that gripped Nagisa's attention.
Karen dropped the novel to the floor and extinguished the dim
headboard lamp. Nagisa Sasaki spooned in behind Drew, pressing herself into
him and resting Nagisa's head on the pillow beside his. Nagisa Sasaki shared his
warmth, feeling his slow and even breathing beside her.
Unable to find sleep through ordinary methods, Karen let
herself drift, recalling among other things Nagisa's association with
Drew.
Nagisa Sasaki and Drew had first crossed paths in their final year of
high school. In a case that had elicited support from the ACLU,
the school administration had suppressed a news story in the
school newspaper. Karen's investigation of corruption in an
alderman's office was explosive
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