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"Fine," Owen ets you out of the punish to Phillip "

Eva's eyes narrowed, and the siblings glared at each other Nor-busters, but whatever had happened in the past had driven a Kincaid-specific wedge between them, one that was still there, even now, all these years later

Sophia offered to take Violet hoed a fehispers before Violet got into Sophia's car, and the two of them left I wasn't surprised when Eva immediately pivoted in her flip-flops, ot into the passenger's seat without another word - or a single glance at her brother I looked at Oho just shrugged, letting me knoas fine

"I'll follow you over there," he said, then pulled lad you're safe, Gin "

My ar his rich scent, the one that always made me think of et about everything that had happened tonight and just concentrated on Owen - on the feel of his hands on ainst my temple

Then I exhaled and put all those soft eht wasn't over yet, and I still hadn't gotten the answers to any of my questions - answers that I needed now more than ever

I drew back and looked at hihten everything out "

Owen nodded and headed across the parking lot to his car I rounded the Escalade and opened the driver's door But before I got inside, I looked up

Phillip Kincaid was leaning over the railing of the Delta Queen The bright globes on the decks above hihts cast his features in darkness and caused his long, ominous shadow to stretch out onto the boardwalk below No doubt he'd seen the whole thing - Owen and Eva arguing, Eva getting into ht of all that, if he'd been pleased Eva had taken his side over her brother's, if he even knehy she'd done such a thing in the first place

Kincaid raised his hand to his forehead and gaveand disappearing fro - and why I had a feeling he wasn't quite the monster Owen said he was

Chapter 12

Eva didn't say a word in the twenty minutes it took for me to drive across town Instead, she stared out theand brooded I didn't try to question her There would be plenty of time for that at home

I turned off the road and steered the Escalade up the rough gravel driveway, leaning into the familiar lumps and bumps as the SUV rocked frohts on Owen's car bounced up and down as he did the saed to the top of the ridge, and Fletcher's place came into view

The old ht of it never failed to lift ht burned on the front porch, illuray stone that joined together at crazy angles to forh a lot of hands over the years, and each of the folks who'd lived here before had added on a room or two onto the structure; hence the mishmash of materials and styles

The house looked quite a bit worse for wear these days, thanks to all the bullet holes that peppered the front and sides like tiny black eyes Back in the winter, bounty hunters hot on the trail of the Spider had laid siege to the house I was still digging bullets out, but I didn'this home to withstand just such a standoff, and it had unfire