Nothing Tastes As Good

Nothing Tastes As Good

Author: Luke Dumas Listening Length: 11h 25m
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The nationally bestselling author of The Paleontologist and A History of Fear returns with a spine-tingling new thriller about a weight loss treatment with terrifying side effects. Retail worker Emmett Truesdale has never fit the Southern California mold of six-pack, suntanned masculinity. Over three hundred pounds, he...

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Chapter 18

“Aren’t you coming?” Lizette said.

Emmett hadn’t moved from his beach chair, its metal legs, like his own feet, half-buried in the sand. A gust of wind fluttered the umbrella. A seagull sailed overhead, pinching a Cheeto in its beak.

It was one of those bright, golden, blazing-hot weekends that demanded beachgoing like a government mandate.

The shoreline was packed from the pier to the inlet of Dog Beach, skateboarders threading through pedestrian traffic on the boardwalk, dreadlocked White dudes blasting music and smoking doobies on the seawall.