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Jaden gasped "Oh, you can’t It’s far too valuable"
"But you don’t intend to sell it And anything is only as valuable as what one pays for it You two should have it You will appreciate it, as Cutter did"
Jaden looked at Ted
"We couldn’t!" Ted said
Jaden pinched hihed softly "Kelsey wants you to have it Take it"
"Can you i in that house, on and off, all those years? I guess he found the way in when he worked for the Merlins all those years ago," Katie said "Ugh! Too creepy"
"I think," Kelsey said, "that he got himself attached to Cutter, and he saw the book, and he found out one on in Key West and decided bit by bit to put together everything that had been used over the years He was invisible, because he could coo so easily He was a thief--and he was a psychopath! At least, that’s how I see it"
"You don’t hate the house now, do you, Kelsey?" David asked her, frowning
They were all at O’Hara’s In the weeks since Vargas had attacked Kelsey, they hadeach other every Sunday at four, if not during the week They were at the back-patio table: Ted and Jaden, Clarinda and Jonas, Katie and David, Sean and Vanessa, and Kelsey and himself
Good friends were hard to coiven hiure out what could have caused such a madness, one that allowed a man to function in the world by day--and live in his oorld of black rites and pure greed and obsession
"No I love the house," Kelsey said
Vanessa asked her softly, "When are you going back to California?"
Liam couldn’t help but answer for her He leaned closer to the table, pulling Kelsey to him
"She’s not," he said, and he produced her hand, displaying the ring they had chosen It wasn’t a dia?" Clarinda asked, grinning
"Absolutely, short engagement," Kelsey said She turned and s smile that made his heartto make them up"
"Oh, oh! Oh, hoeet!" Jaden said
"Saccharine, actually!" Ted said with a laugh She elbowed hirunted
"But what about your partner and best friend, Avery?" Jonas asked
"Oh, I can answer that!" Vanessa said, actually waving a hand in the air "If I may! Well, Avery Slater ht away Avery is looking at property down here There’s a little Victorian on Whitehead, near the Heway House, that he wants to buy"