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“Well not all of them anyway.” He shot another quick look out the window. “I need you to know that I didn’t deliberately mislead you. You have to understand that.”
“Say the words, Ted,” Joe urged him.
Ted exhaled.
“My father is Senator Hosking.”
Joe whistled.
“My brother has just arrived in town because he is now running for the senate. He’s bought a film crew into Ryker Falls, even though I asked him not to. In fact, I think they’ve all come.”
“All?” Joe asked.
“Two brothers, a mother, and a father. I just hope my grandparents didn’t join the party.”
“What state?”
“Mandy—”
“What state, Ted?”
“Colorado.”
“You told me you were born and raised in Wisconsin!”
“My mother’s grandparents live there, and I stayed there—”
“But you didn’t grow up there? Go to school there?” Mandy said. She had no right to the anger she was feeling, after all she’d been lying about her past since she came to Ryker Falls, but it was there just the same. She was suddenly furious.
“Look, I just—”
“You were furious with me when I didn’t tell you about my diabetes. Yet you didn’t tell me this! You’ve lied to me.”
“Which time?” He was looking out the window again.
“How many times have there been?”
“Not many… maybe only one, perhaps two,” he conceded.
“That photographer was not there to take pictures of the lodge, was he?” Mandy said.
“No.”
Joe whistled again. “There was always something dodgy about you. Didn’t your father run to be the candidate in a presidential election?”
“How the hell would you remember that?” Ted glared at Joe.
“Memory like a safe, bud. Nothing escapes.”
“Yet you can’t remember your wife’s birthday.”
“I forgot once, give me a break—”
“Why?” was the only word Mandy could come up with.
“I didn’t want to be part of that life anymore.” He knew what she was asking.
“But your family—”
