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Chapters (48)
  1. TITLE PAGE
  2. COPYRIGHT
  3. CONTENTS
  4. PROLOGUE
  5. ONE
  6. TWO
  7. THREE
  8. FOUR
  9. FIVE
  10. SIX
  11. SEVEN
  12. EIGHT
  13. NINE
  14. TEN
  15. ELEVEN
  16. TWELVE
  17. THIRTEEN
  18. FOURTEEN
  19. FIFTEEN
  20. SIXTEEN
  21. SEVENTEEN
  22. EIGHTEEN
  23. NINETEEN
  24. TWENTY
  25. TWENTY-ONE
  26. TWENTY-TWO
  27. TWENTY-THREE
  28. TWENTY-FOUR
  29. TWENTY-FIVE
  30. TWENTY-SIX
  31. TWENTY-SEVEN
  32. TWENTY-EIGHT
  33. TWENTY-NINE
  34. THIRTY
  35. THIRTY-ONE
  36. THIRTY-TWO
  37. THIRTY-THREE
  38. THIRTY-FOUR
  39. THIRTY-FIVE
  40. THIRTY-SIX
  41. THIRTY-SEVEN
  42. THIRTY-EIGHT
  43. THIRTY-NINE
  44. FORTY
  45. FORTY-ONE
  46. FORTY-TWO
  47. FORTY-THREE
  48. ABOUT THE AUTHOR

“I just finished feeding Shiloh, so I got hungry.” She flashed me the apple she’d gotten from the refrigerator. She moved by me and kept walking without looking back. “Good night, Meredith.”

I stood there stunned as she hurried back up the stairs. Who was she talking to? I rushed upstairs and shook Scott awake.

“Is everything okay?” he asked, sitting up.

I put my finger up to my lips. “Shhh. Be quiet. I don’t want her to hear us.”

“Who?” he asked.

I pointed next door and mouthed, “Kate.”

He dropped his voice to a whisper. “What’s going on?”

I kept my voice low too. “I woke up at three and couldn’t go back to sleep. You know how I get sometimes when I drink. Anyway, I went downstairs around four, because I figured I’d make everyone a big breakfast, since I was up. I walked into the kitchen, and Kate was on the phone with someone. She played it off like she’d come downstairs to get a snack and denied being on the phone when I asked her about it.” I still couldn’t believe she was denying it after I’d caught her red handed.

“She was on the phone?” he asked, trying to clear the sleep from his brain.

“Yes, except she said she wasn’t. Don’t you think that’s strange?”

“Maybe she wanted to talk in private.”

“At four in the morning? Who is she having private conversations with at this time of the night?” He didn’t have an answer for that. “Do you think she was talking to one of them?” I didn’t have to let him know who I was referring to.

“I doubt it.”

“What if she was, Scott? What if she’s been making calls to them in the middle of the night this entire time? You have to call Dean.”

“I will, but I don’t think you need to worry about it. Either tonight is the first night she’s done it, or she’s been doing it the entire time, and they already know about it. If they already know about it and didn’t say anything to us, then it’s not something to be concerned about.”

“Can you make sure to ask Dean about it tomorrow, please? At least I’d know they’d looked into it, and there was nothing to be paranoid about.”

“Meredith, I just said that I would. I have to work in the morning.” He was already moving back underneath the covers, willing to let the entire thing go that easily, but I wasn’t.

TWENTY-EIGHT

TWENTY-EIGHT

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