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Chapters (19)
  1. CHAPTER ONE
  2. CHAPTER TWO
  3. CHAPTER THREE
  4. CHAPTER FOUR
  5. CHAPTER FIVE
  6. CHAPTER SIX
  7. CHAPTER SEVEN
  8. CHAPTER EIGHT
  9. CHAPTER NINE
  10. CHAPTER TEN
  11. CHAPTER ELEVEN
  12. CHAPTER TWELVE
  13. CHAPTER THIRTEEN
  14. CHAPTER FOURTEEN
  15. CHAPTER FIFTEEN
  16. CHAPTER SIXTEEN
  17. CHAPTER SEVENTEEN
  18. CHAPTER EIGHTEEN
  19. CHAPTER NINETEEN

Vivian put her hand on his leg. "Then be smarter about it. We'll meet in the middle. You have to take her someplace where people don't know her. If that means she gets too suspicious to meet you, then you'll just have to suck it up. But you're not asking her to come out to a cabin in the woods with you. It's a restaurant. Pick one neither of you have been to before. If she's on such high alert that she won't go to a new restaurant, then it's too dangerous for you to meet her."

"What do I tell her?"

"You tell her, hey, how about this other restaurant instead? Again, if it's a huge red flag for her, then it should be a huge red flag for you. You pick a place where neither of you will be recognized and you get a booth in the back. You make her feel comfortable. If she doesn't want alcohol, you buy whatever fancy non-alcoholic drinks they have, and keep ordering them for yourself and encouraging her to have them as well. At some point she'll get up to pee. Drug her drink. Get her to the car. Drive her someplace secluded and do the deed. Bury the body."

"All right."

"But if you can't get a booth in the back where nobody is watching you, and if she doesn't get up to go to the bathroom, or if she gives any indication that she doesn't believe you're some YouTube content provider, you ditch the whole idea. I mean it. Any indication. If she raises an eyebrow and you can't specifically identify why that eyebrow went up, you abort the mission. If you get the faintest tingling of your Spidey-sense, it's done. She goes free. Does that sound fair?"

Ken had to admit that it did. "Yes," he said. "It sounds completely fair."

"I still think it's a bad idea, but if you promise to stick to that plan, I won't stand in your way."

"I won't veer from the plan at all. It's a brilliant plan." He gave her a quick kiss on the lips. "I wouldn't do anything to put our family in jeopardy. I care about you and Jared too much."

"I'm trusting you."

"I won't betray that trust. And I wasn't going to try to have sex with her. I'm not even going to flirt with her. She'll know me as a web series producer, and then her executioner. That's it."

"I'm glad," said Vivian.

They kissed.

CHAPTER NINE

CHAPTER NINE