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Her lips twitched into a small smile. “I did put up with years of hearing about the perfect love story of Michael and Fallon.”

“I wasn’t that bad.”

“You scoured every store for china with hearts on it for your gift registry!”

“I did, didn’t I?”

“Yep.” Maddie gave a shaky laugh.

“No more holding things in, okay?”

“Agreed. I tell you, and you tell me. Even if it is to float ideas like Michael not cheating, instead masterminding some convoluted plot to get you to break up with him”

My heart beat faster. “Then you think it might be true?”

“Let’s just say, I’m not ruling it out. But you know what you need to do.”

I nodded.

If I wanted answers, I’d have to go straight to the source—Michael himself. And I wasn’t sure I was ready for that conversation.

Chapter Ten

“You’ve got mail, Rankin,” the Captain called out.

“Huh?”

“Probably you’re AARP card,” Josie joked. She was the youngest member on our team, and she was constantly giving me shit for my age.

I walked over to the mail cubbies, pulled out a letter, and immediately froze. It was the same handwriting as the threats that my dad had received. I looked at the postmark. Yep, it had come from Knoxville, same as Dad’s.

“Well, aren’t you going to open it?”

I wasn’t really surprised that Zarek was looking over my shoulder. He always had been a curious bastard.

“Not here,” I whispered.

As soon as I said that, his eyes changed from twinkling to assessing. “Kitchen should be empty since it’s in the middle of a shift change.”

I nodded and we both headed upstairs. Since I had just arrived, I hadn’t had a chance to put my gear away in my locker, so I had what I needed with me. When we got to the kitchen I fished out my copies of the two letters Dad had received. I saw Zarek frown. “What are those?”

“Dad got these. They were delivered to the bank.” I handed them to Zarek. He took a moment to read them.

“I’m assuming the one that mentions your mom is the second one?”

I nodded. “Yep, he was definitely angrier in that one.” I looked it over again.

Rankin,

You better be listining too me

You and your fancy wife

took what was mine

You will pay.

You will roo the day you intifered.