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“He didn’t seeht before,” Savannah murmured But then, she wondered, maybe all that stuff he’d said in the library was the truth Theof cancer and his friend, Jack

Not that she cared

“You’re the researcher,” Juliette said “I thought for sure you’d have him all vetted by now” Juliette stared at her wide-eyed “You haven’t searched his naent without looking it up on the Internet”

“I’ve been busy”

“Sure you have”

Again, that silence that seemed to say so much

“You know,” Juliette said, softly, carefully, as if she knew she was tiptoeing onto thin ice, “the chance of hi married—”

“I know,” Savannah said, but she couldn’t cal what if?

“Is that why you haven’t checked him out?”

“I don’t think I could survive that again,” Savannah said, locked up in knots Ridiculous, as if that particular lightning would strike twice, but she was still scared of typing Matt’s na that picture of the perfect family with Matt’s name in the caption

The o still had the power to bottom out her stomach “My conscience is about maxed out”

“You can’t still be bla yourself about Eric He didn’t tell you,” Juliette cried

“It’s s out It’s what I do”

“But ould you even suspect—”

“Doesn’t change anything,” Savannah said, guilt like a nice warain

“It changes everything You like being a e on her hip “When you finally get around to finding out who’s living in your house, find out why he got so gung ho about those geo”

“He told us,” Savannah said “His father had just confessed the truth about the theft”

Juliette shook her head “I checked Joel Woods out That man did six and a half years of quiet time He’s out in six months and now he talks? And not to the cops or his lawyer, but to his architect son Why?”