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Show All the Variables & Other Love Stories 54 He was naked, too, and thrust against her. When Beau Walker came in, they both looked up at him some delicious agony. Tears stood out against their cheeks. That was the last thing Beau Walker ever saw. What came next was a flash so powerful the sky above Colorado was fully golden for three days and three nights. A flash of such violence it was followed by a scream of thunder that left the whole town's ears ringing. All the birds took to flight for miles around, and every dog in three counties set its ears back hard and cried for the moon, which was gone, erased by the platinum wash that consumed the firmament so wholly. They cried, they all cried. Every living thing wept for three days and three nights, engulfed inescapably in Jay Meeks, and Melissa Johnson, and their love for each other. |