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“Be quiet,” I tell the dog in a hushed voice.

The dog stops barking and turns his head sideways as if asking me how I did that. “Go back to the house,” I tell it. He turns and trots back towards the house.

I turn to go back to the truck. Kyle’s waiting for me. He picks me up, putting me in the truck on the driver’s side. “Eden is going to kill me,” Kyle says under his breath.

“That dog wasn’t going to hurt me. You, on the other hand, were fixing to get torn up,” I say.

“I could’ve outrun it,” he says.

“Just say thanks, Kyle.”

He looks at me with a frown. “Thanks, dog whisperer.”

CHAPTER 67

KYLE

My cell phone rings as we approach the gate to our house. “Hello, Eden. Yeah, we’ll go right over there,” I say, then hang up the phone.

Ally looks over at me from the passenger seat of my truck. “What did he say?”

“Eden said the lawyer is at the jail and we can go over there now.”

Alley asks, “Is he going too?”

“He’s almost there now,” I say.

When we arrive at the jail, we see the lawyer talking to Laura through a thick glass window. Her eyes fly up as we walk in. I turn to look for Eden and find him standing up by the wall with a frown on his face.

I walk up to her. Laura puts her hand on the glass and I press mine up to hers through the glass. She wears a pained expression.

“Is she all right?” I ask the lawyer.

“Not really. She’s been sick,” the lawyer tells me. “Here, you can talk to her through this phone. I have to talk to the sheriff.”

Ally walks up to the glass. Tears are rolling down Laura’s face. “Tell her we’ll do everything we can. She’ll be out soon,” she says.

I tell her what Ally said and Laura tells me, “I know that.  I need you all to pray for me. I’m afraid they might be poisoning me. I’ve been throwing up a lot.”

Now I see red. “Have you told them you’re sick?”

She nods.

Ally asks, “Are they asking her a lot of questions?”

I ask Laura Ally’s question and she answers, “Not a lot. Just a couple of them. They want to know what flew to our house and where they are now. They said they won’t let me out until I tell them.”

Eden walks up and says, “We’ll figure this out.”

A lady in a uniform comes and takes Laura away. Laura looks back at us as tears flow down her cheeks. I’m trying so hard to stay strong for her, giving her a smile as she’s lead away before we turn and walk out of the room.

Ally almost runs into the sheriff.

“See you finally came looking for your little friend,” he says.

Ally looks up at him and says, “Do you not have a conscience?”

Eden and I go to her side, trying to keep her from getting herself in trouble.