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Chapter 40

He launched himself into a swimming lane with a shallow dive and broke into a warmup lap. The rest of the world fell away, and all he could think about was the rhythm of his strokes and the pace of his breathing. After he’d gone for a few laps to wake his body up, he picked up the pace and really let go.

He got to the end of the first leg of his workout, eighteen minutes of basic freestyle with increasing speed. When he switched to breaststroke for the next leg, he heard a splash. Someone else had gotten into the pool. Well, okay, that was a little unusual. Folks didn’t usually come down here this early, but whatever. The guy must have shown his ID to Ben or he wouldn’t have gotten in. Lennon pushed himself a little harder; breaststroke wasn’t his strongest, and the “climbing the ladder” workouts were some of the most challenging he had to deal with. He wasn’t going to let paranoia take his workouts away from him.