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“Just answer the question”

“No,” he said, his voice thick and solid

“I can find out if you’re lying”

“Then why ask?”

She didn’t say anything, theher nauseous She rested her head against the screen door, hating that the worst thing she’d ever done had brought her Katie, the best thing that had ever happened to her

“I’m not married,” he said, softly

“Good” She pushed the word past the ball of sick in her throat She stepped through the door and stopped again, sys she didn’t want to exa her feet

“There’s gu silence behind her for a moment and went inside

IT WAS EASY, in the end

She sat in her dark ridiculous bed, ht splashed across her lap and the coer poised over the enter key

Matt Woods typed into the search engine

No matter what he said, Matt was absolutely not okay She didn’t want to see it, but it was like watching so was eating him, from the inside out

Guilt deserves to be punished

She had the terrible suspicion that Matt was using her courtyard as punishment

But for what?

Without a second thought, Savannah hit the enter key

“Matt Woods receives award,” shethe files “Woods Takes On Don Architect Has ‘Eleins work on billion-dollar rejuvenation”

And finally:

“Tragedy!”

She followed that link, her heart in her throat, to a three-page article in the Post-Dispatch