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"His eyes are brighter," Drew reht call"

"I hope so," Sloan said

"Thank you, Sloan," Olivia was kneeling on the ground by her horse She looked up at Dustin, and there was anger in her eyes now "Go to the station," she told him "Go! I’m fine I want you to find out who did this!"

"Youyou think someone poisoned the horse?" Drew asked

"I do--and I’ll find out who did it!" Olivia said "Or, rather, we’ll find out"

Dustin nodded "All right I’m on my way Don’t make aa move, period--not until the vet comes and we’re sure Shiloh’s okay," Olivia said "Go Sandra knows so--and I want to knohat!"

Dustin looked at Sloan and turned back to the car He drove fast If a deputy stopped him now, he’d just say he was on his way to see Frank Vine

It rong, Olivia told herself, to feel such intense anger and fear over Shiloh when people were dead But the general, who’d kept his horse haunting the hills with him for a century and a half, and Marcus, who had loved all living creatures, would understand Aaron Maybe he wouldn’t understand coh Drew had described how the horse was at first--eyes rheu Now, since they’d pued the horse’s neck, just sitting with hi, beautiful head and curled his forelock with her fingers

"You’re going to be okay It’s not a bad thing to have a cowboy around, huh?"

"Liv, I’ll go in and get you a cup of coffee," Drew told her "Sloan’s right here, and Sydney’s in his roo distance I’ll be back in a ratefully She glanced up Sloan was on guard, s to make it, Liv"

She nodded "Thanks to you"

"It’s also thanks to Drew and Sydney They run a good stable here"

She nodded, but before Sloan could speak again, they heard a shout from the office

"Hey!"

Sloan frowned and backed away froh the stable entrance to the office Olivia juether they started toward the office

Dreas running in their direction

"Jane! It’s Jane I don’t knohat the hell’s wrong with her She’s down"

"Down?" Sloan shouted "Stay with me!" he ordered Olivia, and tore for the house

Olivia did stay with hiht on his heels Sloan burst into the office and she ran in behind him

Jane Everett was on the sofa; she’d been there with her computer, a cup of coffee on the driftwood coffee table in front of her

She had collapsed onto her side Her computer lay haphazardly on the floor

Sloan rushed to her

"A dart! Look for a dart--a small dart somewhere!" Olivia told him She fell onto her knees by Jane’s left side as Sloan took the right

Olivia saw the tiny dart that had struck Jane; she reached for it "Sloan! I’ve got the dart"

But even as he turned to her, reaching for his gun, she heard a "zzzz" in the air

The big cowboy fell onto his partner and beloved Olivia ducked close to the couch, trying to see as in the office shooting the darts

She stared at the door, but the sunlight was strea in She couldn’t see the asped

"I just don’t knohat you’re going to get out of the woman," Frank Vine --and I don’t have a single thing to hold her on"

They were in the observation roo Sandra while Frank and Dustin talked

"Hold her on suspicion of ! No district attorney would be able to take this case to court!"

"I doubt if Sandra knows that Just tell her she’s going to be booked for o in"

Dustin watched as Frank went to talk to Sandra She i hie, huh, that they called her Maht ship, though But it seeht have killed him?" Callahan asked

"She didn’t do the deed--but I think that, somehow or other, she was in on it"

Frank returned to the observation area "She’s all yours," he said

Dustin nodded and walked into the interrogation roo pure tension "You," she spat "You are a despicable federal ass!"

"Sandra, you were the only one who had a key to Aaron’s house--besides Aaron" Sohtly

"That’s ridiculous!"

"You loved hi me you didn’t have his key?"