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Marie put tea bags in the kettle “You don’t know that for sure”

Sitting down opposite hih distance that they couldn’t possibly bump into each other—Gabrielle said, “I think we do I didn’t say anything on Tuesday because it wasn’t pertinent in the ured out that Tanner showed up at your father’s behest, but when I was at Connelly to o into an office on the top floor”

“Did he see you?” Lia to me about it”

“There’s no way he sawclose the cup of tea Marie placed in front of her

Joining the at the head of the table between the two of them, Marie asked, “Are you sure it was him?”

“I’m sure The man he ith called him by name”

“Did you see who it was?”

“I saw hi who he was, except that I saw the name on the door and Tanner called him by name, too It was Williams”

Jeb Williauard

The three of the on,” Liam said

HIS LIFE WAS never going to be the same

“What’s going on?” Marie placed her hand atop his He felt her war beyond that At all Not even a little bit

Gabi, on the other hand

“I thinkht so Would have given his life on the knowledge that his father would never, ever do anything to seriously hurt him But he’d have been just as certain that Walter would never be unfaithful to Lia’s existence a secret That he’d never out-and-out disown hiain