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"Was it the sauy?" Zoe asked Sarabbed my arm like he wanted to turn me around to face him, but when I screamed, he ran All I saas the back of his head and a dark baseball cap"
Zoe sed hard "Maybe we'll get lucky and Ryan will catch up with hi but caluy had youth on his side, but Ryanhim to a stop on the dark street he'd turned down
Ryan's mouth was dry and his heart slammed hard in his chest "What the hell do you want fro him as hard as he could
"I don't knohat the hell you're talking about You have the wrong guy" The guy inded, but arrogant
"Oh no?" Ryan raised an eyebrow "Then why'd you run like a scared shitless kid?"
Ryan stared into the hooded eyes of a punk who uy who'd broken into her rooht and build There was no coincidence This was the sauy
"I' around to find out why"
"At thearound and fill irl" Ryan pulled the kid's collar tighter, choking hiht material "Unless you want the cops to ask these sa into his face "Go ahead I didn't do nothing they can holdyou can prove It's some troubled kid's word versus et the key to this o or do I have to start yelling This is harassht he'd back down He didn't know Ryan at all No ould he leave this guy walking the streets
He shoved the guy in front of hi where I can call the cops and let them decide who to believe"
AFTER HOURS in the police station where they pressed charges against Sam's stalker, it took forever for Zoe to relax and calm down Not even a warm bath helped soothe her nerves
Sam, on the other hand, crashed and slept like the dead There was definitely soht wryly
Now she lay in peace in her bed in the guest room at Ryan's and talked softly on the phone to her twin She didn't want Ryan to overhear her conversation
"The whole tienda that involved Sam I can just feel it And after Ryan told the police what the stalker said about finding the key to this ht and it involves that key around Sahed "Is it possible he was just trying toher a necklace that the other women in the family have?"
"No, it was ht used the word key I noticed Uncle Russ staring at Sam's keys He definitely wanted to see them firsthand"
"You said he offered to let her keep the new necklace on a key chain I think he's really justan effort After all, he's Ryan's only close relative, right? And Ryan trusts him?"