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"You think they’d leave CJ?"

"I wouldn’t want to think so, but I wouldn’t think Eric would entertain notions of helping kidnappers just to get back at us, either"

"Too bad I wasn’t able to track thehter into his arms "Best little tracker in Colorado"

"And Oklaho," she said with a smile

He kissed her forehead and s?"

"I wonder what evidence North could have of your uncle’s involvement in your parents’ murders"

"He wouldn’t tell me I think he wanted to see me"

Tom scowled at that "I suspect to convince you to stay with his? Do you have any idea?"

She took a deep breath and let it out "My parents were getting ready to celebrate ave a soft snort "Sweet sixteen and I didn’t have any friends around ave me? I mean, it eet, but not exactly what I had expected"

Tom caressed her arm and shook his head

"A boot knife To protect myself with Like I said, it eet of him to worry about me, probably because of the trouble I’d had olves who didn’t like what I was But still, I was thinking more of a mare A boot knife? I ay from home both days when they were murdered If I had been there either day…" She shuddered

Tom rubbed her arm "Your father wasn’t home when your mother was murdered?"

"No He had broken some horses for someone, and he went to deliver theoods my mother wanted I--I returned home after my father did and found him in a state He was just numb I’ve never seen him so… shocked He wouldn’t let me see her body He buried her alone I had… a sense that he kneho had done it I asked, but he just shook his head

"Two days later, he sent o He insisted I take the boot knife with o with o with me I was scared I didn’t take the knife with me I hadn’t wanted it When I was halfway to town, I al bad would happen"

"He wasthe person he suspected killed your uessed