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I can fix it

What a joke He couldn’t fix anything Shouldn’t even try

So into his eyes and he looked up to see Katie scowling at him from a low tree branch She lifted her hand and hurled the peeled orange at his chest

The fruit was right on target and the juice and pulp exploded against his body, up into his eyes

“We don’t want you here!” she cried, then vanished in the leaves, leaving nothing but silence and the se in the air

Suddenly, there was a roar in his head The girlfriend, Savannah, his father and Jack, all screa to divide hiret

Until there was nothing left of him

He would finish this, then the ghosts could have him

CHAPTER TEN

“WOW, LOOK AT THAT new greenhouse It’s gorgeous Seriously, your courtyard looks like aon Savannah’s printer table so she could stare out theat Matt “That guy doesn’t stop, does he?”

“Who?” Savannah asked, pretending to be distracted as she saved files and sent e-mails Done Her work for Discovery was done

“Like you don’t know,” Juliette said, grinning She leaned over and reached into Savannah’s bottom drawer for the Halloween candy she kept there

“I don’t,” she said, knowing she sounded like some kind of spinster librarian Which she was And she was back to being okay with it After the initial shock and anger of finding out about Matt, she’d actually started to grieve a little Not that she was in love, but, for the first ti time, it felt possible

And that didn’t happen in Bonne Terre very often Not for her

But she was over it A week after Matt had been revealed as a fraud, she was her old self again

“I still don’t understand why you let hi to run him out of town for sure”

“Not my call, sadly,” Savannah said

Juliette snorted, speaking volue between friends