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"She stopped bylike you She caht train I couldn’t help but think of you"
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"I know you don’t believeDani wasn’t like that She was the quiet one, the good girl But she wasn’t that way after you left It was as if she wanted to be you"
She barked out a hu Dani"
He grabbed her by the ar her back around His face was so hard and furious she recoiled from it
"Hey," Jim yelled froing her," Chris bit out, releasing her "Because I’m not the one who knocked her up"
She slapped hi to
"You won’t want to do that again" His voice was low and deep, his gaze dark and hot The i the look of fury on his face
Her tummy quivered with fear
"There was soht and once h for me She wasn’t you, couldn’t even co before six weeks prior to her death"
"You’re an asshole A Grade A prick"
"For taking as thrown in my face? Repeatedly? Does itcanlook at me like that" He stepped closer "You know me You know I couldn’t do as done to her"
The awful thing was, she couldn’t i Darcy the way she’d been hurt But what did she really know about anyone, if Chris could’ve hidden this fro her elbow "You should go now, Sheriff," he said grimly "Go find Deputy Cameron and tell him what he needs to know"
"Darcy…" Chris stared at her for a longto talk about this We need to talk about this"
She turned her back on him and walked to the house
"THAT’S THE WACKIEST theory I’ve heard in a long ti to pin first-degree murder and arson on the sahly unlikely"
Jared ri over Kelley’s notes, I found out Danielle’s obstetrician’s office is catty-corner to the phone booth where the tip came in for the shelter fire"
"Could be coincidence" She sat back in her chair at the small table in her motel room and rubbed the back of her neck, her dark eyes capped with a frown "Think of the premeditation required to copy both the Prophet’s and Merkerson’s MOs"
"I’ve requested a cross-check of library lendings of true cri shot, but at least we’ll tie off that thread" He looked at his laptop screen and the case files Kelley had sent his way "There was DNA froe--volunteered a sample to rule himself out Not one? And no probable cause on anyone to justify a warrant, because no one pointed a finger anywhere Everyone knows everyone’s business in this town, but not who’s intimate with the vet, a woman who’s lived here her whole life?"
"They don’t believe he’s one of theuilty" She sighed and grabbed another slice of pizza out of the box they’d tossed on the bed "Small towns When everyone knows everyone else’s business, they can’t believe there’s so they don’t know"
"You sound like you speak fros are universal"
He filed that inforination He hasn’t been thinking about killing and burning for years, as we’d expect, or he’d have his own pattern, his own style Instead he has to borrow soht down to the tiniest details And when he’s done what he set out to do, he puts the urge away Goes back to being hiets about it Because he’s crazy as a loon, but his crazy doesn’t eat at hi has to set it off"
"So we need to figure out what set him off Maybe it was the baby the first tiuy’s married That’s why they kept the relationship under wraps I’ll look up the men in this toere married at the time and see what shakes loose"