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"So brave" She pretended to shiver "You’re living dangerously this week"

He stared back at her the way he usually did unless she pushed hi bored with her Da those damned jeans out in ways she knew they weren’t meant to be filled That was not boredom

"You heard about Joe and Jaime," he stated as he moved farther into the room "I tried to find time to come out and tell you myself, but I was tied up with forensics and city hall"

"Not a probleed as she twisted the cap off the water "I’m sure I heard about it before the coroner ever had the bodies loaded and ready to go Your deputy likes to run his mouth, Sheriff Seems he thinks trailer trash like the Walkers don’t warrant a forensics tea and all that Why should the city waste its ot what they deserved"

His lips thinned Anger perhaps Irritation definitely as he strode to where she stood

"Sit down, Rogue I’ll deal with ure out what the hell happened with Joe and Jaihed inamusement when he took the chair beside her, except the disappointment went too deep She would have felt his warmth if he had sat on the couch And she felt cold inside For soh she had traveled too far and too long from some vision of security and now found herself deep in unfaue" Zeke sighed then, rubbing his hand over the back of his neck "I know those boys were closer to you than most folks knew That’s why I need to talk to you See if you can help h heels fros beneath her No sense in worrying about whether or not her legs looked nice in front of Zeke right now He was keeping his gaze fir reo hand in hand

"Joe wouldn’t have killed Jaime," she told him with a firm shake of her head "Joe and Jaiht over a wo else, but they would have never hurt each other Not for anything"

"What about drugs?" He leaned forward and stared back at her in deh she would lie to his," she told him "A little pot every now and then, sure But not the hard stuff They didn’t touch hard drugs"

"But they did smoke pot?" he asked

"Probably" She lifted her shoulders "I never saw them do it, but I assumed they did from a few jokes they’ve h

The most I’ve seen was a few too irl They usually , and then headed ho was serious for too long"

"What about enemies?" Zeke asked "Did they have any you’d believe would want to hurt thele ene, they ell liked I never knew of anyone wanting to hurt them And why ask that question if it’s a cut-and-dried murder-suicide as your deputy believes?"

She watched Zeke suspiciously now Why the questions if he believed Joe had murdered Jaime, then killed himself?

"There was a murder, no ure out the what and the why to close this case, Rogue I don’t like questions left dangling"

"Then you have a hell of a question going on there," she told hi you, Joe wouldn’t hurt Jaime He was the oldest twin He was more protective toward Jai"

He still watched her closely, that so over her face, al that he would have looked lower, but he didn’t He kept his gaze on her face, and that pissed her off

He was sitting here questioning her over her cousins’ deaths, deaths he had to suspect couldn’t have played out as it was made to look He could have come to question her at any time, but he came late, after he was off duty, in plainclothes, and aroused

Unlike hi below his neck Or his waist She sure as hell had no proble below his belt

"Look, Zeke, I can’t tell you anything you obviously don’t know already," she told him

"I know Joe or Jaime--neither one would have hurt the other Whatever happened up there is bogus It was a setup and I can’t figure out why, because Joe and Jaiht you were a threat to no one last year when you were attacked as well," he reminded her "It wasn’t what you knew on Mackay and Grace that landed you in the hospital, Rogue, it hat they were afraid you knew What could Joe have been afraid of that would have made hied to get herself twisted into a Hoation into Nadine Grace and Dayle Mackay As he’d said, it wasn’t what she had known but what Grace and Mackay thought she ator, Dayle’s son’s lover, Chaya Dane, had questioned her, it had drawn Rogue within their sights once more

She’d spent a week in the hospital, bruised, with a cracked rib and a bruised skull, but she’d come out of it alive

"Someone else killed Joe and Jaime," she told him "Get that in your head, Zeke

Someone set that scene up Because I know to the soles of my feet neither of those boys would have hurt the other It wasn’t in theaze jerked to her feet where they rested at the side of her body, then back to her face How interesting