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"What exactly is he up to?" Anne wondered, her thoughts racing even as her oxygen-deprived brain struggled to function. She had never witnessed her son in such a state of frenzy and violence. It was as if he had become a stranger, unrecognizable from the son she had raised.

"I'm not going to let her go," Paul shouted, his voice strained and distorted by his own inner torment