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Malachi and Abby were on their way out, while aed the drive to the Horse Far, and Chapparal had been saddled and bridled for him He climbed on the horse and started to leave the stables

"Whoa!" Malachi held up a hand "Let’s divide the area into sections We’ve got a lot of property to cover"

Callahan was on Battle-ax "The ravine?" he asked Dustin "The ravine--where Marcus died?"

"Maybe Frank, why don’t you take the ravine with soive round"

He galloped out of the stable on Chapparal and across the pastures

If you were crazy and thought you had soht to a piece of land--as well as the hereditary right to speak to a ghost--where would you go?

A cemetery

"Here’s what I don’t understand," Olivia said "You’re a good therapist, Mariah And I always thought you loved what you did"

"I’reat lover of the downtrodden, confused and drug-addicted And, oh, yeah, they love you, too You should see the disappointment on their faces when they find out they’re with Mason or reat historian I can tell you everything about the occupation of Nashville I can describe every Civil War battle in this state--oh, and I can tell you anything you want to know about Andrew Jackson"

"I grew up in Nashville," Olivia reun inside her shirt and wondered if and when she’d get a chance to use it During the ride they’d taken so far--running the horses hard ood storyteller She was also a skilled horsewoallop, trot, canter and walk--Mariah had kept the gun on her

And Mariah knew a lot about rew up in Nashville And your good-looking cousin is with the FBI And you have a great house from your uncle, so naturally you just have to inherit another house froent comes out here with drop-dead looks and of course he immediately falls for you while Never mind"

"What do you mean, never mind?"

"Don’t pull any therapist bull on me, Olivia You can’t analyze an analyzer"

"Isn’t it more like you can’t con a con artist?" Olivia asked

"Whatever Give it up"

"Okay I take it you plan on killing h that’s pretty dumb They’ll know it’s you"

"They arrested Sandra Cheever"

"And you think she’ll go down alone?"

"I’ll call her a liar She had thewith Aaron"

"But she’s in custody now, Mariah She couldn’t have done this People will arrive at the Horse Farm They’ll find all the bodies you left strewn around--and they’ll realize I’"

"No one saw ht have done this," Mariah said

"You’re crazy Aaron’s dead Drew and Sydney are half-dead Sandra is in custody and--"

"Mason is out there somewhere and, God knows, I’d implicate that crazy old broad at the café"

"Key words, Mariah--crazy old broad at the café She’s alorking, always surrounded by witnesses When could she have done any of this? But the point is, if you’re going to kill ood to everyone Why did you kill hirandfather was born on this land I’m entitled to it The Horse Farm had to fail"

"So you could buy it?" Olivia asked incredulously

"It’s really ht to it I shouldn’t even have to buy it--but I will"

"It was Marcus’s faot it," Olivia said

"Yeah, well, I went on one of those ancestry sites And it led reat-whatever was Marcus’s great-whatever’s brother, which ht to the land as he did And then I wouldn’t have to be a so-so therapist I’d get to be a great hostess for a haunted bed-and-breakfast, and every night I’d give history and ghost tours"

"You’re crazy"

"No" She shook her head "It should have been so simple Everyone should just have said, oh, how sad Marcus Danby becaain and it proves that the whole therapy thing was a pile of bullshit It would’ve been simple as hell"