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"Okay, where did he say-exactly-that they were?" Sean said

"The third drawer, under the old guidebooks," Katie said "He was certain of it"

"They’re not here," Sean said

Bartholomew had followed thehed "You, chill," she said to Sean "And, you! You just hush up," she said to Bartholohost is still with us?" Sean asked

"Tell hiht off his head next time," Bartholomew said

"Bartholoht have been wrong, or mistaken Try the second drawer Neverup here I was already in here with Lia through the drawers Sunset was coht to play tricks

It looked as if sohost shadow, in that first exhibit where Robert the Doll and the Otto faet out of here!" Bartholomew said

"What the hell is that?" Sean deo," Katie said

But Sean didn’t heed her warning "Katie, call the cops," he said He started toward the exhibit

"Sean, no, let’s just get out of here!" Katie pleaded

"Whoever the hell you are," Sean yelled angrily, his voice loud and deep, "show yourself Co and the cops are on the way"

Katie had dropped her purse when she’d started rifling through the drawers She reached for it, couldn’t find her cell phone and dumped the contents on the desk

"Sean!" she called

Bartholo after her brother

Sean becah the doorway to the Otto faers curled around it She keyed in 911, and to her disnal "Fuck! Fuck, fuck, fuck!"

She searched her entries and found Pete Dryer’s cell number and punched it in There was no answer

"Son of a bitch!" Sean roared

"Pete, Pete, it’s Katie O’Hara, I’m in the old Beckett et this, and come quickly!"

Sean let out an oath, and then it seelass, thurabbed a paperweight fro in after her brother

They were in the car, driving back to town David turned to Liaend He’s soreat deal to He’s fascinated by all the legends" He was quiet for a minute "You don’t know anyone nahed "Smith? In my life, I’m sure I’ve uez, Jones…and I even know a pack of O’Haras, none of them related"

"Okay, Liam I believe that Tanya was murdered to hurt our fae And it seee that’s hundreds of years old Okay, first off, think about it It couldn’t be Sanderson to begin with-he was a tourist He didn’t know the Elena legend, he didn’t know our family He was an outsider"

"An outsider with an alibi," Liaht, as odd as it may sound then-Sam Barnard"

"Tanya’s own brother?"

"He knew the island like the back of his hand Knew all the legends He adht that she was killed He adry with her for acting like a flirt-a tramp And maybe it even went deeper Daht have known so He had the books, and the money Lord, here’s what it has to be-the killer read so his life that ticked hi psycho I believed from the time I came back here that the murder wasn’t random Think about it Stella Martin winds up dead The e Danny winds up dead Danny is sht Get hile him And then here’s the piece that y of Robert the Doll Who else knows these legends and stories better than anyone else? A local And when violence happens, don’t the police look at faht, so what do I do? Well, I’ll give your reasoning to the tea-we still don’t have a shred of physical evidence"

"I know And I’h those books," David said "Maybe, by the ti Maybe she’s already found so," he said He pulled out his phone and called Katie’s cell It went directly to voice , or she never charged her battery," David said

He was already dialing again

"Sean?" Lia-and went to voice mail

"Hurry," David told Liam