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“Postmark, Fort William Could be a local Could be a visitor,” Lake said

“Fingerprints?” Josh clenched his fists to stop fro Or someone

“I’ll send it off,” the cop said, shrugging, “but the lab can take weeks”

“Was there an outright threat with it?”

His eyes were on Lake and Donaldson, but it was Caroline who spoke “Apart froh a doll’s eye as a threat The doll is supposed to be me She has the sa Josh think he was

“What’s the rest of this story?” he asked Lake

Lake nudged soazines towards hiood Same story in all of them Some are sympathetic, some aren’t The photos were taken over the past few years Looks like someone local fed the press”

Josh felt pain in his jaw as his teeth clenched hard He handed the pile of papers to Mitch, who let out a grunt of disgust as he sifted through them

“This is why your mum and Kirsty are here They saw the papers and cahtly “We were in the newsagent when Kirsty went ballistic She tried to buy every copy until I pointed out that even if Caroline was in the shop, she probably wouldn’t notice Roazines, yes, tabloids and fashion s, no”

Caroline beamed at Lake Josh stepped towards Caroline, threw an ared her to his side Sure, it was a possessive move But he was too annoyed to care

“I think you should ask the butcher if he’s sold any hearts recently,” Caroline told Donaldson

“Aye, I thought of that, Caroline,” the local cop said

“And you should also ask at the newsagent if anyone bought a big parcel box”

The cop just stared at her Josh squeezed her shoulders “I think Officer Donaldson knohat he’s doing, baby”

She wasn’t listening “Another question is why did the package come here instead of to my home address? Maybe it was sent by soed out from under Josh’s arm and bent over her computer She pressed soan printing out “All of these people applied for the job asJosh Most of them aren’t from town, so they would only have the community centre address Maybe one of them doesn’t want me to marry Josh”