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Chapters (67)
  1. Contents
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. PROLOGUE
  5. PART ONETHE EXTREMES
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  22. PART TWOSOMETHING BAD
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  37. PART THREECHAYLA
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  51. PART FOURHIT AND RUN
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  66. EPILOGUE
  67. AUTHOR’S NOTE

‘Macy’s not an idiot. He’s smart. He’d protect himself. Murder Birch, and people wonder why. They ask uncomfortable questions. But assassinate Birch and make it look like domestic terrorism? Now it’s a political crime. Now there are fall guys. Ham Brock. Chuck Warren. The Liberty Empire Alliance.’

‘You’re wrong,’ she said. ‘Frank Macy sold drugs to Drew. Diane blames him for Drew’s death. That’s all I know. If she paid him, it wasn’t for the reasons you think. It was something else. Maybe she just wanted him to go away.’ She paused, and then she added harshly: ‘And I’ll tell you another thing. It’s no accident that this is coming out now. Whatever went on between Macy and Diane, I’m certain that Ramona Cortes knows what it is. Ramona was Macy’s lawyer. She wants it exposed, and she wants your fingerprints on this, not hers.’

‘I still have to talk to Diane. I have to know what happened.’

‘Do whatever you need to do, but I’m begging you to be discreet. The suspicion alone will destroy Diane if it becomes public.’

‘You think I don’t know that?’ Cab asked.

‘I think you do, but you don’t seem to care.’

Cab wondered if that was true. Tarla had accused him more than once of being obsessed with answers, regardless of who got hurt. After Vivian Frost’s betrayal, he’d come to believe that anyone in the world was capable of evil. He took it personally when people lied to him.

Maybe that was the problem. This was personal. Diane had never told him about the loss of his child, and he wanted to hurt her as a kind of revenge. He was ready to believe she was guilty of something terrible. He was ready to ruin her.

‘I care about this more than you think,’ Cab told her. ‘I hate what Birch did to Diane.’

He waited for an answer but heard only thunder. ‘Caprice?’

And then again: ‘Caprice?’

Finally, she came back on the line. Her voice was different. She didn’t sound like a politician anymore. ‘Cab, we have a problem.’

‘What is it?’

‘Ogden Bush just called me on my other line. Peach was in his office a few minutes ago.’

‘Peach? Why?’

‘Apparently, someone broke into her house last night,’ Caprice told him. ‘Her brother Deacon is missing. Peach says Deacon was talking to his prison contacts about Frank Macy before he disappeared. Cab, I don’t know exactly what happened ten years ago, but right now, I don’t care. I’m more concerned with what’s happening today. Get inside, and check on Diane.’

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