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"Do you think he knows?" I asked

"Knohat?"

"The reason why Travis is acting so weird He knew the tere hotshots He knew about Travis and Tho is off, too"

Trenton shook his head "I dunno Maybe"

"They wouldn’t …" I hesitated "You don’t think they would …"

"Lie again?" Trenton muttered "Yeah, I do"

I tuckedit aloud "But not about … Iupdates about his grieving family"

"No," Trenton said "They wouldn’t do that to Dad I know you want him to be alive I do, too They’ve lied, but they wouldn’t do that"

"You heard the to testify Mick is , so he’s unable to testify The Carlisis were seen leaving town Maybe this was all to keep anyone else fro killed"

I could see in Trenton’s eyes that he wanted to believethe truth about Tho our fareat health Travis wouldn’t risk it"

"Would Dad want him to?" I asked

Trenton mulled it over "Yeah He probably would"

"Would Thomas and Travis know that?"

Trenton’s eyes bounced frohed, at his limit "I can’t hope for that, Caone, I’ll lose hi for him

"Why?"

"Because if it’s true, this is all to show the Carlisis that they don’t have to threaten our fa"

CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO

ABBY

I READJUSTED AGAINST THE HARD WOOD of the NICU nursery rocking chair, thanking the nurse when she brought a folded blanket to cushionwe’d made friends with two sets of new parents Scott and Jennifer’s daughter Harper Ann was born five days ago, and she was experiencing a setback She’d been struggling hour to hour for the last twelve hours Jason and Amanda’s son Jake had been born two days after Carter We were afraid he wasn’t going toas our son was Carter was nursing consistently and gaining weight, so he’d be able to move to the step-down unit soon, and then we’d be able to take him home