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Melissa to trust a bunch of possibly crooked cops over her sister, all because she didn’t want to accept<br />

that<br />

her beloved might be dead.<br />

“Really, I’m fine,” Melissa urged, as if she could read Spencer’s thoughts. “I just d<strong>on</strong>’t want to be here if<br />

there are going to be search parties and news vans.”<br />

“But the cops aren’t searching here anymore,” Spencer told her. “They just called it off.”<br />

A startled look crossed Melissa’s face. Then she shrugged and turned around without answering.<br />

Spencer<br />

listened to her padding down the stairs.<br />

The fr<strong>on</strong>t door slammed, and Spencer could hear Mrs. Hastings murmuring quietly and kindly to Melissa<br />

in<br />

the foyer. Her real daughter. Spencer winced, gathered up her books, shrugged into her coat and boots,<br />

and<br />

walked out the back door to Melissa’s barn. As she crossed the cold, vast yard, she noticed something to<br />

the<br />

left and stopped. Some<strong>on</strong>e had sprayed LIAR <strong>on</strong> the windmill in the same red paint as the graffiti <strong>on</strong> the<br />

garage. A glob of red dripped from the bottom edge of the L to the dead grass. It looked as if it were<br />

bleeding.<br />

Spencer glanced back at the house, c<strong>on</strong>sidering, then pulled her books into her chest and pressed <strong>on</strong>.<br />

Her<br />

parents would see it so<strong>on</strong> enough. She certainly didn’t want to be the <strong>on</strong>e to break the news.<br />

Melissa had left the barn in a hurry. There was a half-drunk bottle of wine <strong>on</strong> the counter, and a halffilled<br />

water glass her normally anal sister hadn’t washed out. A lot of her clothes were still in the closet, and<br />

there<br />

was a big book called The Principles of Mergers and Acquisiti<strong>on</strong>s flung <strong>on</strong> the bed, a University of<br />

Pennsylvania<br />

bookmark wedged between the pages.<br />

Spencer hefted her cream-colored Mulberry tote <strong>on</strong>to the brown leather couch, pulled the CD of her<br />

dad’s

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