Chapter 132

I had no choice but to pin everything on the murderer, to spur the cops into action.

It dawned on me that I really had to lay low from now on, not rushing to prove who I really was. I needed to gently nudge the investigation forward under the quise of being Phoebe’s friend.

It had claimed to be Phoebe’s friend from the get–go, maybe Stella and Robin wouldn’t have been so damn suspicious of me.

I’d been too careless; that was clear.

“She’s lying!” Melody squirmed in her attempt to struggle free.

I gave Melody a meaningful look. “Without proof, I’m going to sue you for slander.”

Melody seemed to falter. Her goal wasn’t really to get me locked up but to keep Dexter away from me. Clearly, she had accomplished that.

“The Langleys can afford a good lawyer,” Caleb said, gripping my hand firmly: his gaze on Melody was fierce, murderous even.

this eerie feeling that if we were alone in the hospital room, Caleb would have killed Melody without

hands, his knuckles were white, and the veins on the back of his

as if

soothed would be a lie… but I still couldn’t bring myself to trust him

being the real Phoebe like Melody suggested – Pretending to be Phoebe, deceiving him, all to secure my place in

hanging around Phoebe’s place on the

didn’t you tell me earlier?”

cahoots, but now, between Melody and Foebe, I’m more inclined to trust Foebe because she’s right–Phoebe wouldn’t share the location of her house

if she was saying, “I’m choosing to

and the police to discuss how you lured Phoebe to Tangle Lane. It wasn’t manslaughter; it was premeditated murder.

out, his voice laden with

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that I’d send Melody

you just fine,” I said, looking at him before continuing. “You claim Phoebe was just your sister, but unfortunately for you, she was the fiancée your mother Hailey picked out. Because of Phoebe, Hailey never accepted Melody and wouldn’t let her into the family easily. So, to marry into the Fitzgerald family. Melody had to get rid of

Phoebe.

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