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Before Sarah could collect the sodas, her phone rang again This ti on?" she asked hi on results But my DNA is a ht," she said "Are you all right? They’re your ancestors Maybe we can arrange to have her buried with Cato It shouldn’t be that hard to find out where he’s buried"

"That’s a nice thought, but it’s not why I called you"

"Oh?"

"I just got a call back on the testing I asked for on Renee’s blood"

"And?" she asked

"She had yaupon holly in her bloodstream"

"So she was an intended victim!" Sarah said Before he could answer, she heard a noise from the front of the house, then a worrisome silence

She didn’t want to worry Caleb, but she needed to see as going on "Oh, hell, it’s getting busy around here," she said "I’d better go"

She set her phone down and raced to the front of the house

"Renee? Gary?"

"In here--ladies parlor!" Renee called

Sarah started to head in that direction, then heard the front doorknob turning Avery excited She had a big bag over her shoulder, and a large cup of takeout coffee in each hand "I’ve brought the stuff--let’s go look at it"

"Great Renee and Gary are in the parlor, so--"

"Good, they can look, too Only I don’t have coffee for them"

"Someone can have mine," Sarah offered

"No, I kno you love your coffee, and I got extra sugar in it--it’s ivesome tea Renee prefers tea, anyway," Caroline said

Sarah shrugged "No prob I’ll put the kettle on and be right there"

Caleb walked into a bar on a side street just off Castillo As his eyes adjusted to the light, he realized that Cary Hagan was sitting at the bar

And she iping tears fro her "Can I…do anything?"

She flashed hih?"

"I’m sorry?"

"You should be I’ve just been fired"

He sat down on the stool next to her and asked, genuinely puzzled,

"How is it my fault that you were fired?"

"Tim broke up with me, and then Mr Griffin fired me, all because of you"

"I’ve never even spoken with Mr Griffin," he told her, noticing the e to cut her so him look incompetent because you, Mr Hotshot, are always the one to h He called and toldAnd then he said how you practically accused hi the killer just because he had mud on his shoes And then…Then he broke up within the way of his career, plus people were starting to talk about us and his as starting to suspect So I left and went to find hie his ot back to the house, an ambulance was there, because Mr Griffin had fallen out of his chair--and he fired me!"

"Cary, I’m sorry, but I don’t see how I’m responsible because you decided to date a married man, not to mention you’re the one who left your patient alone so you could try to get your lover back," Caleb pointed out calmly

"Well, I’ her head "Everyone pretends to be nice, and then they turn around and talk about you behind your back And to think I was sorry about that Renee Otten the other night Well, I’ot what she deserved"

"How do you see that?" Caleb asked

"She talked about Tim and me, just like the rest of them," Cary said "I saw the way they all looked at us in Hunky Harry’s Well, I’ve seen a few things, too, let , I can tell you that Miss Goody Two-shoes is nothing but a lying, slutty little bitch"