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I wasn't going to get away from Tenn, and I needed to be here even if I wasn't sure exactly what to do about it Might as well go with the flow For now

Keeping pace beside Tenn, I took August's hand in my free one and tucked him behind me as Tenn reached to open the front door of Heartstone Manor

Chapter Seven

SCARLETT

The door swung open before Tenn could turn the handle A man who could only be another Sawyer stood in the open doorway, his blond hair rumpled from sleep This must be Griffen, the oldest brother, the one Tenn had called froates Beside him was a tall, slender woman in a bulky robe, her face pale, eyes wide as she took in the three of us

Griffen stepped back to let us in "What the hell is going on?" he de the two-story front hall

"Are you okay?" the wo to Tenn It felt like she was checking on me as much as Tenn, but I didn't answer Until I had a better feel for the roo my mouth shut

A door closed on the other side of the hall and a couple strode in, hand in hand The man was almost a carbon copy of Tenn, his hair a little more auburn than Tenn's espresso, but otherwise, they could have been twins The woazed up at the Tenn look-alike, the hot pink coils of her hair bright against her honeyed brown skin

"Hey guys," the Tenn look-alike said "Since when are you all up this early?"

Tenn raised an eyebrow at hi when I came back from my run"

They all stared at us, faces blank

"Vanessa's body?" the look-alike asked "She's dead?"

"Shot in the forehead, just like Dad," Tenn confirmed

"And who's she?" he asked, looking atwith my nerves Tenn had said his whole family lived here, but I hadn't expected to walk into a crowd