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Chapter Thirty-Five

It didn’t seem realistic, at this point in the book, for Eric to get off scott-free. Someone once described the formula for a good suspense novel as Three Disasters and an Ending. While I wasn’t using that formula when planning this book, I figured that I really needed to up the ante on the disasters. Of course, given the genre of the book, we all know that things will end pretty well and that Eric and Rebekah will get together. But I wanted things to look really really bleak before we got there. I love reading books, or watching movies, and thinking: there’s no way that this can end well.

So Eric gets shot. And not just grazed, either. Getting grazed by a bullet is a cop-out. This was a full-on, tear-up-some-organs kind of bullet wound.

The fight between Edward and Felix is one of my favorite parts of the book. Yes, they’re both bad guys, but they have competing ideologies and entirely different motivations. And—more interesting in my opinion—Felix, who’s been the bad guy since the first chapter of Wake Me When It’s Over, is the one who appears more reasonable. And despite everything that he’s done to Eric and Rebekah, the reader is rooting for Felix here.

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