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Of course, when they eventually went to bed, they didn’t sleep, not right away Jenna wondered if her own brush with the edge of an ax had ht

She and Saether she wondered what he was thinking

"Thanks, by the way," sheme out with Jamie"

He was silent, and she wondered if her ti soon Sad, for in such a short time she had realized that he hat she wanted desperately Sam was the reason she’d never been serious before--she’d been looking for someone just like him, with his eccentricities, and his sense of honor and ethics She cared far too deeply He had what she needed in a ance

Sam rolled over to look at her His eyes were deep and serious

"Do you still think I’ her fingers through his hair, s

"Good Because sohosts and have postcognition?"

"Because…because I thought I was going to die tonight when I believed you ht have been struck by an ax"

"You’re always out there on the front line," she said

"I’m an attorney"

"Oh, now…that’s the truth, and not the truth Last I heard, you defended a led with the mob"

"The son of a mobster, and he was innocent That’s different… I don’t know if I can bear being with you," he said

"It’s all right," she told him

"No, it’s not Because I don’t know if I can bear not being with you"

She rolled into his arive in to me? Will you promise not to try to slip into the school? Call it silly, I have this weird premonition about tomorroant you safe"

"I won’t slip into the school touilty, because she had no intention of telling hi in circles And she thought that she knew the way to end it

"This is even crazier," hein love with you," he said

She pulled him down to her "I like crazy," she assured him

John Alden was true to his word; he was at the school, which had been in lockdown over the weekend When Sa, the wardrobe mistress--the drama coach--swore up and down that Martin Keller had been telling the truth about the inventory, but other than that, she couldn’t vouch for what ht have happened with the costuh the boys that Sam really wanted questioned were the seventeen-year-olds, he had nothing against the parents being present

Joshua Abbott was brought in to speak with John, Sam and Jackson alone--without David Yates there to tell hiestures Just when they were about to begin, Joshua’s father, Ben, arrived

Sary that his son was being questioned But Ben Abbott was just the opposite

"Damn it, Joshua! This is serious Perjury You follow that Yates kid around like a puppy, but you straighten out right now You want to go to college? You want a football scholarship--you want a life? You’re not in any pact with David Yates You’re just a kid, and he’s just a kid, and the two of you ht wind up with jail time Tell the truth!"

Joshua looked at his father miserably and lowered his head

"Did you see Malachi Ston’s house the day he was murdered?" Sam asked quietly

"The truth!" Ben Abbott repeated