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“This asshole already threatened my family”

“Good thing I’m not family”

She chewed her sore bottoift in the pantry” She nodded toward the gas can

“He’s the sheriff He should know”

“He will, but not now Hank has to play by the rules This psycho doesn’t I don’t”

Jake didn’t speak for a minute “Fine”

Relief flooded her body She didn’t want to face off against the Voice of Doom alone

“OK Let’s see what else the jerk left behind before you call Hank But when you do, leave this part out”

“Shouldn’t you call him?”

She eyeballed him “If I call, he’ll pester me until I tell him every little detail I haven’t been able to keep a secret froer than twenty minutes in my whole life You need to call”

“Yes ave her a mock salute She huffed out a breath that sent a few tendrils of hair flying froe in the rest of the house

Claire’s fury swelled each tie of so that used to be whole The psycho was lucky she didn’t find him crouched behind the shut shower curtain because she would have beat him with the curtain rod

She couldn’t reer had become her default mode when faced with adversity Probably soon after she’d found Brett and some tall blonde passed out naked in her bed In response, she ran She stayed busy It worked Mostly She picked up the shattered fraraduation photo and wondered if soirl still lived

“All clear,” Jake hollered from another part of the house

Today was not the time to find out She stalked out to the porch and ar the killer’s face in each glass splinter and particle, she swept the sharp pieces into a mound