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I decided not to push her, but ut was not far off the mark

"He’s a monster, Charley," she said, her voice breathy with suspicion, "and I would betto do with his wife’s disappearance" She frowned hard "If he couldn’t control her one way, he’d find another"

Maybe he’d found out about Teresa seeing her sister every day and realized he couldn’t control her as well as he thought Clearly, his answer to that wasoff the sadness, "I knew I had to come talk to you, to warn you about him"

"I appreciate this so " She offered rin, apparently able to block pain and switch emotions in the blink of an eye We were ator? That’s like the epitohetti sauce in her hair that one night she was out with roup of their friends "Thanks," I said, all shetti sauce in roup of our friends?"

"What? No," I said, feigning offense

She snorted "You’re not a very good liar"

"Yeah, sorry about that It was meant for Gemma She’d stolen my sweater"

"Then clearly she deserved a little le

"I know, right?"

I left Yolanda with a hug and a pro Dr Nathan Yost to justice But first, I simply had to find Teresa Whatever he’d done with her, to her, it couldn’t be good

As I walked back into the building, I looked again to ure out who had been in the shadows before It couldn’t have been the intruder I felt no resent knife Norht have tried to discover the shadowy spy’s identity, but I was too tired and didn’t much care

By the ti smack-dab in the middle of it, her pajamas askew, her eyes wide in astonishment She’d probably coht into the war zone I had no choice but to accuse her

"Seriously, Cookie," I said, walking up behind her She jumped and turned toward me "Was the cupcake remark really that offensive?"

"I didn’t even hear an intruder," she said, gawking at the surroundings "How did I miss this? What if Amber had come over to watch your TV?"

She had a point "I’ up papers off the floor "Being close to erous place to be"

"What?" Aftersank in, she said, "Don’t be silly"