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“I have—he doesn’t remember a lot”

“Perhaps—”

“Just drive, Nor next to her had parts of hi down thehelped defuse the scent of her perfume, but in truth, that didn’t help much

She focused on the road, and drove with skill, easing his nerves greatly—at least about her driving—by the time they entered the outskirts of St Paul Ty had also forced hiswho’d poisoned Dave’s drink “Hoell do you know the chief of police?”

“Ted Willia over a set of railroad tracks

He didn’t bother nodding, or looking her way; she kneho he meant

“Well enough, I suspect,” she said

Ty let a breath out slowly before he turned her way “I know your father told you I need complete cooperation from you, and I expect it”

“He did,” she said “But I havethe car down a rough road lined with thick trees “Like the truth”

“We need to head into the city,” he said “This isn’t the way”

“An hour won’tto steer around potholes that jostled the Cadillac so hard his teeth rattled

“An hour?” he asked

“Or less,” she said “That will depend on you”

Curious and enticed by the way she atteerous, he asked, “How so?”

She looked at hi out of the resort A cold, calculating stare that did little more than warm his chest Her eyes were too blue, her skin too perfect and her lips too kissable—a fact he’d never forget—to pull off the stare like she wanted to But she tried He’d give her that

She’d slowed the car to a crawl and still stared at him as she braked to a coine If she’d been anervous by now He’d heard of this spot The isolation, the trees and rock wall a short distance ahead, screa of the privacy it all provided, and what he could do with that—had things been different

Re the key, she opened the driver’s door and stepped out Ty chose to mollify her and climbed out as well, and followed her up the road to the rock wall, which was actually an overhang The twin cities, St Paul and Minneapolis—farther to the ere visible, laid out in a bird’s-eye view The railroad tracks, streets, buildings, various lakes and the river, with nuhty Mississippi curled its way through the hills and valleys, neighborhoods and plats of industrial areas where smoke clouded the otherwise blue sky

“Suicide hill,” Ty said when she turned another cold stare his way

She was good, barely lifting a brow at her surprise that he knew exactly where they were

He gestured to the edge, and the swamp several hundred yards below “More than oneoff this ledge” When she lifted her chin, he added, “Despite the bullet holes in his chest”

Chapter Fourteen

Ty said no ht hi to not let her disappointment show The trouble with that was he knew her too well Perhaps because she was so s saw them easily in others

“And ent,” she finally said

He reached over and flicked the butterfly on her headband before tugging on her ear “Norma Rose, I’m touched you’re so worried about me”

“Worr— I’ aside his hand

“Then why did you bring me here, if not to warn me?”

With lips pinched tight, she breathed through her nose and, he had to ad, just not to him

“I’rowled, “about ill happen if you don’t tell ive ain”