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“Rafe?” I suggested.
“To what end? I saw his face. He really thought FNG was dead. No, it can’t be him.”
“If not him, then who?”
He was silent for a moment. “Maybe FNG.”
I shook my head, not understanding. “Wait, you think FNG sent a lookalike in to pretend to be FNG?”
Cash looked at me uncertainly. “It would be hard to pull off. And not hard at the same time. None of us really knew FNG.”
“No, but this guy knew a lot about us. He’s basically filling in the blanks about FNG, telling us what he wants us to know. And how can we corroborate any of it? We don’t know what he was up to for the past year. Did you know he was married once before?” Cash shook his head. “Or that he almost married Paris?”
“Paris?”
I nodded, eyes wide. “TheParis.”
“No,” Cash said, his eyes narrowing slightly. “It can’t be.”
“That’s what I thought. None of this makes sense. It doesn’t line up with what we know about FNG.”
“Then how are we supposed to find out who this guy really is?”
I almost didn’t say what was on my mind. It was bad enough to think it, but to even suggest it out loud…”We could…maybe let Fox have a run at him.”
Cash winced at the suggestion. I knew it was a lot to ask, but we needed to know the truth.
“If we’re wrong about this, FNG will be gone for good. He won’t even look back.”
“But if it’s not FNG…”
“We’d be weeding out an imposter.”
“So?” I asked. “What’s it going to be?”
“Well, I suppose it’s not completely absurd. After all, my brother stepped into my shoes here. Maybe FNG has an identical twin we don’t know about.”
“So, that’s a yes to Fox interrogating him?”
He sighed. “I’m going to hell if I’m wrong.”
36
FOX
“You want me to do what?”
What they were asking was ridiculous. It was FNG. I was sure of it. He knew aboutMy Fair Lady,and how I told FNG he would love it if he just gave it a chance. Nobody else would have chosen that detail to share with me.
“It’s just to make sure it’s really him,” Cash said.
“How could it not be him?” I laughed. “It looks just like him.”
“And he’s faked his death multiple times before. We can’t trust him. Besides, you guys all thought he was a vampire when he first showed up.”
“Okay, I’ll admit we may have overreacted when he first came here, but why do you think something’s wrong now? You were the one that insisted it was him.”
“Because nothing is making sense. His stories are so outrageous and he was married!”
