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Chapter 1

Jude

The screech of tires and Meatloaf’s Two Out of Three Ain’t Bad blasting from tinny speakers pulls my attention from the blueprints I’ into the high school parking lot next door

It’s one of s, but not at seven am on a Monday

Until today, construction on this residential, two-story house has been quiet No traffic buzzing by No peoplearound Zero distractions Exactly the way I like it But that’s all gonna change now that suling teenagers have been traipsing past the job site for the last hour

“Hot damn,” , lohistle

“What?” I follow his gaze to the school parking lot as I roll up the blueprints and snap a rubber band around them

A young girl steps out of the ’vette, pushing aviator sunglasses up on top of her es the driver’s side door shut with a casual sway of her hip—a es squeak from decades of rust, but she doesn’t seem to notice

I push e of thearound her jean-clad calves A black tee with a red kisssuede jacket She struts away from the car with the attitude of a movie star who just stepped out of a limo and not a rusty old sports car that’s e

Did she fall into a time portal that sucked her out of the seventies and dropped her straight into today?

“The things I’d like to do to her…” Kyle says, licking his lips like she’s about to be his last meal

My gut burns with a twinge of disgust and guilt as I tearhis shoulder a hard shove “Get back to work I’le chicks”