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“You could, you know,” I tell hih to know he’s covering “Man, she was fifteen when I o”

He opens his mouth to reply, but is cut off by the appearance of Rayo?” Ray extre eyes around the roo on, weirdos?”

“They were talking about us,” Raye whisper, and the two of them turn and saunter out of the room

This has all become officially tooatop a cliff If we lean one e slide back to safety If we lean the other e catapult headfirst into a canyon

The probleet us safely to the ground

Chapter eleven

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If you were a murderer in the nineteenth century, it’s likely that poison—most co fro insects, arsenic was cheap, easy to acquire, and kept in abundance in most Victorian homes If you were a desperate woman with an abusive or rich husband you’d like to kill, it was a relatively easy way to do it

As youon—and that I should have finished hours ago—is about poison More specifically, it’s about wo it Nannie Doss—dubbed the Giggling Granny—murdered husband after husband, and alore a s four of them Anna Marie Hahn lured rich, elderlythe they had Blanche Taylor Moore’s life was a scandal of dead family and husbands and extramarital affairs, and even inspired a made-for-television movie

Mayhem, calculated murder, history, and a body count—this is rossed Normally I would have finished this chapter and been well into the next before e

But today, nearly a week after Reid and I had sex (again), I have the attention span of a teaspoon It doesn’t take a genius to understand why

Since I love torturing myself, I pick up ht? I was thinking pizza and gossip about Chris and your sister

Nothing tickleshim, but he didn’t take the bait

You are way too easy

Pepperoni sound good? We’ll fancy it up with the two bottles of wine your ht Ed putting in your purse

Details, details Should I text everyone and order?

It’s been fifteen minutes and Reid has yet to reply, but just as I’m about to put my phone down, a new one coht

Date?