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"You visit him?" Owen asked, the surprise clear in his voice

"Of course I visit him Don't you?"

Owen shifted in his seat "Yeah I just didn't think you would "

Kincaid laughed, but the sound was low, harsh, and ugly "Still determined to believe the worst about me "

Owen didn't respond

Kincaid leaned forward and looked atif he could stand up to Salina, the answer is yes I just don't know for how long Cooper is strong, but even back then, it took everything he had to get Salina to leave town He should have killed her when he had the chance We both should have "

Owen didn't say anything, but his ain He didn't agree with Kincaid about killing Salina, not even nohen he knehat she'd done to Eva

I wondered what he would think of me when I did the deed for him

My mind was made up Maybe it had been from thethe water ele to her, had erous she was I didn't know exactly what she was up to with McAllister and her mysterious dinner party, but like the others had said, it couldn't be anything good She'd only been back in Ashland a few days, and she'd already killed two people and tried to off Kincaid as well It was just a matter of time before she hurt someone else, someone Owen cared about And I'd be damned if I'd let that happen

I glanced at Owen, but he was staring out theand brooding again Yes, I wondered what my lover would think when I killed his ex-fiancee If he would be glad she wasn't around to be a threat anymore - or if he would hate me for it

We rode the rest of the way in silence I drove past Warren Fox's store, Country Daze, and slowed down so I could take a good long look out the e passed More than a dozen cars filled the parking lot, along with a tour bus, as folks stopped on their way to wherever to get a quick drink or snack or to browse through the mountain crafts and homemade jams, jellies, and honey that Warren sold I smiled Nice to see that Warren's business had picked up since I'd gotten Tobias Dawson off his back One of the ood deeds I'd done in the last several months The only ones that seemed to matter to me anymore

I kept driving up into thetruck and a siant drivers standing in between the, when Owen pointed to a turnoff up ahead

"That's it," he said

I turned and steered the Escalade onto a bumpy dirt track that seemed to lead into the middle of nowhere We drove about a ht sparked in the trees to h it was the middle of the afternoon It took htthe sun I squinted, but I couldn't quite ures were before we rounded a curve and a large house came into view

It was a ray river rock, the kind that could be found in the ays in and around Ashland and the surrounding ether beautifully, while the house's A-line roof looked like a blanket of coal that had been thrown over the rocks