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Tyler stepped forward This time, he read aloud "‘My dearest friend and sweetest confidant, little sister h sometimes when I think of the roles the world would have us play and the roles that Fate gives to us instead I pray for your safety above all else, because it is a dangerous stage upon which you perform I had heard they noticed the anxiety upon your beautiful face Whatever the future , wherever it will take you, do not let it steal away the srand schen, rery with her It doesn’t even sound as if he was--or had ever been--in love with her," Allison commented

"You’re the professional historian," he said, s at her, "and I’es were frequently arranged at the tiood friends and perhaps the families expected her to marry Stewart But he wasn’t out for Bradley’s blood for having taken his fiancée He understood what she was telling hihed "But this doesn’t arding her health nancy," Tyler said

"Why, yes! That’s possible," Standish agreed

"But if Lucy was pregnant with Bradley’s child," Allison said, "ould he have killed her?"

"Maybe in a fit of rage," Standish suggested

"I don’t think he did kill her," Tyler said

"If he didn’t, then who did? It doesn’t sound like it would have been Stewart Douglas The way these letters read, it’sto each other," Allison argued

"I made copies for you Youthem with the croels

"That’s extremely kind of you, Mr Standish," Allison said

"Yes, indeed, thank you" Tyler felt the buzz of his cell phone in his pocket, excused hian, and he already had a report on the phone records "There were seven callsFour of the of Prussia, Pennsylvania"

"Mia’s your daughter, I assume?" he asked Standish, who nodded

"And?" Tyler returned to Logan

"The other three were made from a prepaid cell It was purchased with cash on Saturday froht that particular phone But tracing the satellites, we know the calls were an and assured hi up and explained to Standish that they couldn’t trace the calls more precisely because they’d been et the info on that" He looked at Tyler "You’re an agent, for real?"

"I am"

"Good Then you can seenorth to a cabin I have up in the woods with so around to die"

"The danger seeently

Standish snorted "You know, that guide dying in the late seventies ht have been an accident, but the rest of the deaths associated with that place? The kid being electrocuted, the heart attack in Angus’s study And now…another dead guide and a dead board "

"I think you’re doing the right thing," Tyler said

Allison nodded in agreeave her copies of the letters and she thanked hie, where he got into a pickup truck with a shotgun on the front seat

They followed him for an hour

There was a chain hotel on the way as they headed back Tyler suggested they stop there for the night

When they entered their room, he immediately pulled her into his arers playing with his waistband and the buckle of his belt He disar as he unfastened her shirt

She pulled back, breathless "This case is all…falling into place Perhaps we should be ain, letting out a groan as his naked body caure it all out"