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“You’ve never shown that you know anything.”
“Oh, burn!” Michael choked out, half-inclined to laugh.
Nia turned on him, and Ellie thought she was going to rake his face with her nails.
“Stop,” she ordered, her voice cold and hard. Nia froze, possibly hearing something in Ellie’s tone. She hadn’t been kidding when she said she was off leash. Right now, at this moment, she felt capable of anything. To Michael, Ellie said, “Am I going to have to follow you around? I could call your father. Let Oliver deal with you.”
“You don’t want that!” Joey called from outside.
“Joey, if you say one more word, I’m heading straight to your father,” Ellie shouted at him.
Both Michael and Joey stayed silent.
Nia, having recovered a bit, defiantly lifted her chin. “You wanna know what I know? Too bad.”
“I want you out of my brothers’ lives. That’s all I want from you.”
“I know that Penske didn’t kill that cop, Bailey Quintar,” Nia said quickly.
Ellie could feel her anger harden. She wanted to grab Nia Crassley by her hair and drag her outside. She knew she was close to losing it completely. And if she wasn’t careful, this adrenaline-pumping anger could change to grief, and she would collapse and sob her heart out.
“She deserved to die. Bitch killed my brother. I was glad when she died! We all were. I—” She gasped in shock when Ellie suddenly did grab a fistful of her hair. “Ow! You fucking bitch! . . . Whore! . . . cu–”
“Shut up!” Ellie screamed in her face, shocking her silent. “Bailey didn’t kill your brother. That was road rage. Get it straight. I’m taking you back to your house. On the way, we’re going to stop for a pregnancy test, and you’re gonna pee on that stick in front of me!”
“I’ll sue you. I’ll say you attacked me!” Nia shrieked.
“Hey,” Michael said.
Ellie rounded on him. “Pay attention to what you and your brother have been fighting over. This girl? Really?”
Nia twisted around to try to slap Ellie, and she would’ve gotten in a pretty good hit if Ellie hadn’t held her back with a hard yank.
“Owwww!” Nia howled. “I’m gonna sue! Tell everybody about you! You’ll lose your job!”
Ellie laughed without humor. Too late. “And I will write a story about you and your miserable family that’ll put half of them in jail, where they oughtta be.”
“Nia, stop it. You don’t want more trouble. A couple of ’em landed there already,” Michael admitted.
That caught Ellie up. “A couple Crassleys in jail? Well, that’s a good start. Which ones?”
“Booker and Harry. They were in a bar fight last night,” Michael said glumly.
Nia wriggled, trying to loosen Ellie’s grip. “Like the kind that bitch cop always broke up!”
“Watch yourself when you say anything more about Bailey,” Ellie warned.
“I’ll say what I want. He never wanted to be with her. It was just a job,” Nia spat.
“Penske? He’d be lucky to have her,” Ellie responded, but her antennae shot up nonetheless.
Nia spat like a wildcat. “He never wanted her! She was just in the way and had to be removed. We all hated he
r! She just wouldn’t leave us alone!”
Ellie snarled sarcastically, “Oh, sure, so he killed himself too.”
“He didn’t kill himself! That wasn’t supposed to happen! He was mmmiiiiinnnee!”
