5:29<\/p>\n
Caroline washed her hands again. They were already raw from related scrubbings with her pumice, but she just couldn’t seem to get them clean.<\/p>\n
Whatever had possessed her to get involved in this? She’d actually had to touch that disgusting pair of wild animals. Carrying them across the field had been like holding onto dead flesh. They had flopped and rolled in the most unsettling manner and the drool rolling off the putrid pink tongue of that rabbit had dribbled down her arm, almost making her throw up. After dumping them in the crate she had literally run for her car and been trying to wash the stench off ever since.<\/p>\n
Caroline looked up into the mirror. What she saw was a haggard-looking woman stripped down to her bra. She stood with bright-red hands and forearms and a look of desperation wrapped her features like an opaque veil.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhy did I ever get involved in this?\u201d she asked the desperate woman. \u201cI will never be clean again…\u201d She received no answer and resumed scrubbing her hands, wringing them desperately and slathering on even more antibacterial soap from the pump dispenser.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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