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"Sorry, I changed the subject on you You cao So far you’ve found a guy dead in a sunken car and soirl dead on the beach Unless…you don’t think she’s the girl you’re looking for, do you?" he asked

"No, definitely not," Caleb said He’d thought at first that she ht be But the woman on the beach had naturally dark hair--Floby had pointed that out She was also petite, maybe five feet even, and Jennie Lawson had been taller, around five foot seven

"So do you think everything’s connected?" Will asked "Except for the guy in the car, I mean"

"Yes, that’s what I think," Caleb said

"Do you think you’ll ever be able to prove it?" Renee asked hi

"Yes Because all killers mess up eventually," Caleb said

"Not Jack the Ripper," Caroline pointed out

"With today’s science, he’d have been picked up," Caleb said

"But we all know that killers get aith it all the ti his head "It’s terrible, but it’s true There are tons of unsolved et off the subject of murder, okay?" Caroline asked

"Okay, here’s another subject," Will said "I need another beer"

"We all need food," Sarah said

"Yes, Mo to smack you in two seconds," Sarah pro to" She stood, looking irritated, and headed for the bar Caleb stood and joined her

"Are you all right?" he asked, standing next to her while she waited for their waitress to finish at the draft taps

She looked at him "Actually, I’ve been anxious to see you all day," she ad he wasn’t co away "In a way, yes"

"Oh?"

"You have to ad is, now I know exactly why I thought what I did"

"Really?"

"Really," she said firain "I don’t want to show you now, and I don’t think you want , I’ you don’t want to becouys," she said, indicating the table, "are a great bunch of people, but you saw the way they hopped right on Jamison No secret is safe with the to follow her words "Well, thanks for thinking aboutabout"

She laughed "Walk me home I’ll show you then"

Their waitress turned to the, and Sarah told her that they just needed menus She ordered another beer for Will, too

He thanked her when she returned to the table, depositing the beer in front of him, and asked, "May I have a menu, too? Please? I won’t be obnoxious anymore, I promise"

"You can’t help it," Sarah said, but she handed hi over the menu, but in the end, they ordered a round of fish and chips for the table

Right after they ordered, Caleb’s phone rang He checked the caller ID and was surprised to see that it was a number he had just entered that afternoon: Floby’s cell

He answered quickly, then excused himself and went outside

"Where are you?" Floby asked hiht that you ht away," Floby told him "I haven’t even spoken with Jae"

Caleb didn’t reply to that He didn’t know Jamison well, and he had never met his wife It wasn’t his place to co that was keeping hi me," he said "I’d love to knohat you’ve coirl was buried--and then dug up and thrown into the water"

"What?" That was a twist on delayed iht of

"She’s been dead five or six months If she’d been in the water all that tiuy who died in his car, so you knohat the fish can do to soft tissue This girl…her organs have decayed as if she’s been dead for months, but there’s just no way in hell she could have been in the water that long Co to fully understand"

"Definitely I’ll be there first thing," Caleb said