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He stopped, his eyes widening a split second before he caught hi water? Really, Nathan? That’s the best you could do?"

His jaw dropped a solid two inches as he gazed atwith all those receipts and reports and things you stuffed down the back of your pants--not that I would touch the sentence if Luther doesn’t get to you first"

He stood withouta mile a minute

"Now you’ve done harht side of any of this"

"I … I can try to scrape so up," he said at last

"You’d best have a really sharp scraper, ’cause I ain’t cheap, Keith"

He glanced around like a cornered aniht? We can discuss this, ements"

That time I did snort "So you can kill rave?"

He closed his eyes and shook his head "I would never do that to you"

Oh, for the love of chocolate I needed to throw a ticking bo dinner with Luther Dean tonight Seems he was quite taken with h, he scrubbed his fingers over his face I could i in on hiet you a hundred grand right now," he said

"Cash? Set you ood for the rest? A ?"

He lowered his head "If you had known my first wife If you’d seen what kind of woman she was Hateful and materialistic"

"Like you?"

Fury reared inside him, but he stayed calm on the outside "You have no idea what she was like"

"Youlike the tenth ti its efficacy, but he had a decent-enough ass "She was going to take everything fro I’d worked for I couldn’t let that happen"

Better We were definitely getting there "So, you killed her?" When he didn’t answer, I added, "Wouldn’t a good lawyer have sufficed?"

With a contemptuous sneer, he said, "So she could lie in court? Tell the judge I’d beat her or so?"

"Did you?"

He snarled, so Iin a deep breath, "let’s pretend for a moment I believe you, and you had no choice What about Monica? What did she ever do to you?"

He visibly struggled to brace himself for what he was about to tellto steal Teresa away froh, that I didn’t fit in"

I gasped "Then by all means, let’s poison her until her kidneys fail"