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“I don’t knohat to say to that The thought of Nicky giving you that many personal details makes me incredibly uncomfortable”

“But if we are negotiating for actual dating and sex between us, then more shared information is better, isn’t it?”

I glanced back at hi on my face

He smiled then, a wide, happy, predatory one “Don’t hide your fear from me, Anita You know I enjoy it”

And that was it forI needed more people around me I needed not to be the only nonsociopath in the conversation

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LEDUC WOULDN’T ALLOW any of the Coalition people, including Nicky, to see the new evidence It was police evidence, and they weren’t police None of us could argue with that, so Newman recommended a bed-and-breakfast just up the road “It’s also the closest and has the most pleasant rooms There’s a motel just up the way and souarantee anything will have rooms”

Leduc reluctantly agreed and even called the owners of the bed-and-breakfast since he knew them like he seeht, and a third would open up tomorrow Nicky took all three rooel called thethe group up

Olaf asked Nicky, “Why aren’t you worried?”

“I’ll be wherever Anita is tonight, so she’s covered”

I had aabout ould keep the other touards; she’d put herself up as bait because everyone thought she could take Olaf The hard feeling in el didn’t fit his profile, so I was less worried about her, but once Nicky assured everyone that he’d be byabout security and just went to check into the rooh available rooms at the local motel that they didn’t have to call anywhere else No one kissedfor el did make me promise to text or call when the evidence reveal was done

“We can’t help you with Bobby if we aren’t here,” Angel had said

“I know and I promise,” I said, and I meant it

Leduc made us wait until they’d driven away before he’d share the new evidence with us He punched in a code to unlock a phone and showed us ainst Bobby: pictures of Jocelyn asleep taken fro down at her or as next to her Leduc wouldn’t let the rest of us touch the phone so that the nuue with his logic, but he was acting as if the proof would actually see a courtroo he was obsessed with his stepsister There was even a selfie that Bobby had taken of hi up at the camera with Jocelyn obviously asleep beside hi into her roo pictures for at least a er There was even a video at the end in which he was lying in her disheveled bed with the sheets and covers cru into the camera

“What’s he saying?” I asked