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“Uh-huh” Slanced up at Sam “Any ideas?”

Plenty “Not a single one”

Sive an inch His orderly world had been shuffled and he would be the one to set it to rights again

“Can I go now? I need to go get my nose X-rayed”

Saze at Hank “Can you vouch your uncle won't disappear?”

“He won't unless he wants to miss out on Mom's baked mac and cheese for the rest of his life” Hank led Uncle Harlan to the door, stopping just under the archway “We'll talk soon, Sam”

Not if he could help it

After a quick discussion with S-clean Volvo, a stark re pissed hiht in the center of attention for Dry Creek's gossips The place he'd hated being more than anywhere else

Then again, he sees that were out of character whenever he was near Josie It wasn't that she pushed hih, he just felt more himself around her

Josie cleared her throat “So where to now?”

“O'Neill's” The single as all he couldlot, the s around hi hiotten the news about the break-in Years of research about Rebecca and the fa with theRebecca's Bounty Once he found it, the woas and his life would return to norive a damn about the treasure itself Noanted to find it just to check that off his to-do list and get his life back to the way it always had been And should be

They drove in silence, if not in peace Josie sat ralinting in her hair as they drove south frohtly wound as the platinu her heart-shaped face filled the car's interior

“Okay, so what's the plan you're cooking up in that head of yours?” She arched an eyebrow at him

“What makes you think I have a plan?”

“Of course you do You wouldn't o on a treasure hunt without one”