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Hannah used her hand to demonstrate the look “Like proper, never a strand out of place and always perfect”

“Half of the population” Kipp shook his head in apparent frustration “Was he a police officer?”

“No,” Hannah replied “He worked for an insurance company in Southaven”

I quirked an eyebrow “An insurance adjuster?” A cop made sense He’d have experience with death, know police procedures and have the ability to hide evidence as he clearly had done to keep under the radar An insurance adjuster? No, I didn’t believe that for one second

“Yes, he told me that,” Hannah said

Kipp gazed at Hannah intently “How much did you know of Percy?”

“Everything,” she answered in a wistful tone “We were in love”

Got it, she loved the guy, but he killed her I couldn’t get past the fact she had yet to show a singlewas off here

Kipp obviously didn’t care or had yet to notice, since he continued without pause “Do you knohere Percy lives?”

She shrugged “He never told me where he lived and never took me anywhere but to a house he rented”

Rented, my ass!

“Have you ever seen his wife, learned her na of that sort?” Kipp asked

She winced at the mention of wife “He kept us separate and I never asked about his other life Our life was the only one I was ever concerned about”

I wanted to shake her to break the spell of love woven over her, but Kipp reo to his workplace?”

She shook her head “He’d never let me With his wife and all, he said he didn’t want to hurt her” She sighed “He had such a gentle heart”