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Back The Last Guests
Chapters (54)
  1. Cover
  2. Dedication
  3. Epigraph
  4. PROLOGUE
  5. PART ONE
  6. ONE
  7. TWO
  8. THREE
  9. FOUR
  10. DEADLY SAS RAID IN AFGHANISTAN UNDER SCRUTINY
  11. FIVE
  12. SIX
  13. SEVEN
  14. EIGHT
  15. NINE
  16. TEN
  17. ELEVEN
  18. TWELVE
  19. THIRTEEN
  20. FOURTEEN
  21. FIFTEEN
  22. SIXTEEN
  23. SEVENTEEN
  24. EIGHTEEN
  25. NINETEEN
  26. TWENTY
  27. PART TWO
  28. TWENTY-ONE
  29. TWENTY-TWO
  30. TWENTY-THREE
  31. TWENTY-FOUR
  32. TWENTY-FIVE
  33. TWENTY-SIX
  34. TWENTY-SEVEN
  35. TWENTY-EIGHT
  36. TWENTY-NINE
  37. DANIEL MOORE: ‘A SINGLE BLOKE, HAPPY-GO-LUCKY, A BIT OF A DUNCE BUT WITH A GOOD HEART,’ BEST FRIEND SAYS.
  38. THIRTY
  39. THIRTY-ONE
  40. THIRTY-TWO
  41. THIRTY-THREE
  42. THIRTY-FOUR
  43. THIRTY-FIVE
  44. BREAKING: POLICE CONFIRM DANIEL MOORE ACTED ALONE
  45. THIRTY-SIX
  46. THIRTY-SEVEN
  47. THIRTY-EIGHT
  48. THIRTY-NINE
  49. SECOND ARREST MADE IN WESTAY HIDDEN CAMERAS CASE
  50. EPILOGUE
  51. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
  52. Discover More
  53. ABOUT THE AUTHOR
  54. Also by J. P. Pomare
88HH: Wot a fucking show!!
GeneralMayhem: Look at those pigs swarming. They don’t even know.
Daddyboy: Oh well it was fun while it lasted. This sort of shit is going to ruin Peephole. Why can’t we just watch people? why do psychos have to go and ruin our fun? We’ve all paid up and now the service will probably be shut down.
DRUMPF2024: Where is this? Looks like the sun is just rising.
GeneralMayhem: It’s New Zealand, I think. I’ve been watching this stream the last couple of weekends and the sunset times all align with NZ or one of the few islands dotted in the Pacific, but if you see the ferns on Cam 5 it looks like NZ. Plus that looks like the NZ police uniform.
DRUMPF2024: GeneralMayhem, you the killer?
GeneralMayhem: The bitch is the killer.
DRUMPF2024: LMAO
Fruitdrop: LMAO, nice. Daddyboy is right though. Admin is going to tighten things up even more now. Less streams, more attention from police. They’ll find the cameras and it will be all over the media.
QsentMe: Speak of the devil. Look at Cam 4, they’ve already found one.
GeneralMayhem: I was convinced it was staged or some kind of role-play, but she fucking blasted him, right in the guts. He must have been a Peepholer, knew where the cameras were all along.
DRUMPF2024: Do you think they will get banned? Haha.
Fruitdrop: Love it when the good guys win. ; )
DRUMPF2024: OMG. I’ve just realised it’s the girl from the other stream. I knew I’d seen her before. WHAT THE FUCK
PlatoOf21C: I don’t want to see this shit. This is like a fucking horror movie. I just want to watch people, is that so fucking hard?
Daddyboy: Wait, there was another man, right?

PART TWO

AFTERMATH

TWENTY-ONE

CAIN WAS ASLEEP in his hospital bed when I left with a police officer to answer follow-up questions. He has both ketamine and fentanyl in his system which they’re flushing out. I head back to the lake house to get the car. Photographers in hazmat suits are still inside, and a pair of cops are walking down near the lake’s edge, scanning through the grass. It hurts to be back here, seeing the house in the light of day. That guilt comes again, the scene pressed deep into my brain – scenes that will never leave me. Daniel on the floor, that gurgling sound. The blood.

The window in the master bedroom is smashed and there’s half-a-dozen exit holes from where the shotgun had blasted through the wall which have let rainwater inside. It’ll take weeks, maybe months, for the insurance claim to be processed, but I see a police officer climbing a ladder to hang tarpaulin over it.