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"What were you doing at the Inn this , Scarlett?"

Everyone waited for hed my options The truth was out of the question Mostly because I wasn't sure exactly what the truth was I wouldn't know that until I got my hands on Thatcher, and the only clue I had to his eventual location was Sawyers Bend and the Sawyer faood people Normally, I'm not a liar And I didn't have to lie now

Stuck between the truth and a lie, I chose door number three

Complete and utter silence

The Sawyers waited I took another sip of coffee, trying to hideheart Griffen ended the stale his attention fro and entering?"

Tenn shook his head "Trespassing so far, but when I see hiust in the closet of the cottage That should be enough to add to the charges"

They discussedto ice as the full ra in a s of extreht these people

Griffen's eyes on one as quickly as it had reappeared "Do you understand your situation, Scarlett?"

I took another sip of coffee, the hot liquid bitter in ry words I held back Trapped I was trapped by Thatcher's idiocy, htedness, and the dead body I'd fallen on top of

I thought I understood my situation I answered with a question of my own "Who was Vanessa?"

Tenn answered as Griffen continued to stare me down "Vanessa was our brother Ford's wife They're divorced, and she hasn't been s our father, Vanessa has been hounding us for uments She was a real pain in the ass"

"Lots of"Did your brother kill your father?"

"No," both Griffen and Tenn said

Griffen set down his coffeehis elbows on his knees "I have one brother rotting in prison for a crilanced at Tenn "Those are West's handcuffs?"