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A minute or two later, his brothers were back "The house is locked up Door wouldn’t budge"
This wasn’t going the way Linc had planned "Okay, so maybe they aren’t home"
"Then where are they?" Mel de irritated
"You’re the one with all the answers, re to stand between his brothers "Let’s skip the sarcas for Mary Jo, reot a clue," Ned returned calhbor," Mel said
"Be uest" Linc motioned widely with his arm
"Okay, I will I’ll try…that one" Mel marched down the steps, strode across the street and walked up to the front door He pounded on it Even from this distance Linc could hear his knock
An older woman with pink rollers in her hair pulled aside the drape and peeked out
"I just saw someone," Ned yelled "There’s someone inside"
Linc had seen her, too
"Why isn’t she answering the door?" Mel asked loudly, as if the two of theer
"Would you answer if King Kong was trying to get in your front door?" Linc asked Apparently Mel hadn’t figured out that most people responded better to more sensitive treat minutes
"Be that way, lady"
"She just doesn’t want to answer the door," Ned shouted back
Mel ignored that and proceeded to the next house
"Knock nored that, too Walking to the door, he pushed the buzzer, then turned and glanced over his shoulder This house see on the door and lights sparkled fro patience, Mel looked in the front , fra inside for several seconds, he straightened and called out, "No one’s home here"
"You wantfriends in the neighborhood
"Do you think it’ll do any good?"
"Not really," Ned ad blare of sirens sounded in the distance, disrupting the tranquility of the night
Mel hurried back across the street "Everyone in the neighborhood sees in her hair"
Despite their efforts, they obviously weren’t getting anywhere "Nohat?" Ned ot any ideas?" Linc asked his two brothers, yelling to be heard over the sirens
"Nope," Mel said with a shrug
"Me, neither" Linc said, not hiding his discouragement
They sauntered back to the truck and cliine and was about to drive away from the curb when two sheriff’s vehicles shot into the street and boxed him in
The officers leaped out of their cars and pulled their weapons "Get out of the truck with your hands up!"
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Mary Jo hadn’t intended to spill her heart to Grace, but the older wo, she’d related the whole sorry tale of how she’d met and fallen in love with David Rhodes By the time Mary Jo finished, there was a pile of used tissues on the table
"You aren’t the only one who’s ever loved unwisely, my dear," Grace assured her
"I just feel really stupid"
"Because you trusted aher head "The one who needs to be ashareed "But let h the years"
"What’s that?" Mary Jo asked She dabbed tears from the corners of her eyes and blew her nose
"Ti suess the reverse is true, as well I’ll get over David and his lies…" Her voice trailed off… "Is everyone in Cedar Cove as nice as you and Cliff?" she asked a moment later
The question seemed to surprise Grace "I’d like to think so"
"Olivia--Ms Griffin--certainly is" Mary Jo sighed and looked down at her hands "That firefighter--what’s his naain?"
"Mack McAfee He’s new to town"