Marit's tears were gushing audibly, and she turned toward a dumbfounded Zac in the distance, pouting. "Darling, you don't believe him, do you? Why would I be an enemy of the Turnbulls?"

"Hmm...?"

Frank was caught off guard—this was not part of the plan.

Marit turned back toward him just then, her lips parting slightly to speak in a wavelength that only Frank could hear. "That's for hooking up with that woman."

While Frank was left speechless, Zac bellowed, "Frank Lawrence! Release my wife, you bastard!"

He lunged at Frank like an angry tiger, but Frank easily sidestepped him and tripped him.

"Are you crazy?" Frank snorted in disdain as Zac landed on the floor. "Your wife's already dead. That's just an empty house, controlled by insects."

"I don't believe you!" Zac bellowed even as he scrambled to his feet and jumped at Frank again.

miserably, playing along to

with contempt

this time

him easily again and sent him flying

on Glen right then, he snapped, "Are you just going to

his temple veins bulging as he

"Yeah, where's your evidence?"

where we're standing, you're the South Sea

you fine when we're

snapped at the Turnbulls' obvious

shoulder, and he took a deep

and lifted her hair, revealing a beetle-sized

now just a puppet—or, if you still doubt me, roll up her sleeves to see the decay on

he limped from the distance.

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