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She replaced the smile and turned back to me "He toldon? Was Earl Freaking Walker alive or not?

"And he lied" An iridescent pool sat tres for air

"Why would he lie about so to understand

After glancing at the hand covering hers, she clasped her fingers around it, then looked up at h she felt sorry for my lack of depth "Because that’s what he does He protectsfor me He always has Do you know there are pictures everywhere?"

"Pictures?" I asked, fighting past the grief

With an almost invisible nod, she said, "He kept pictures Proof Blackmail"

"Reyes?"

"Earl" She shook visibly as memory after memory washed over her "In the walls"

I leaned forward, trying to get through to her "Sweetheart, what pictures?"

She stood, walked to the door, and opened it for et in touch with you the ," I promised

Her breath hitched in her chest, and I realized it was taking all her strength to hold herself together The kindest thing I could do would be to leave So I did She closed the door softly behindshe’d told me before about Reyes and her surfaced How Earl Walker had used her to get what he wanted out of Reyes He had abused him in the worst way possible Had he taken pictures? Wouldn’t that i of what she one to prison partly for her Cleary, she needed to believe Earl Walker was dead with every ounce of her being And I had just planted a seed of doubt in herto kill me

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