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“Of course you do.”
“I’m serious. Hear me out.”
“This ought to be good,” I say. “Hurry up, because I can’t wait to never see you again.”
“We should trap him.”
“Peter?”
Jane nods. “Yeah. He wants you dead, and he wants me to do the dirty work. If we corner him, we can talk him out of it. He can’t fight off the two of us.”
“Again, what do you get out of it?”
“We can both take him to the cleaners. We’ll demand money, and lots of it. You get to keep the house and kids. I’ll disappear and never return, if that’s what you still want.”
“Or you can leave now, and I can try to save what’s left of my marriage.”
“The man wants you dead.” She looks at me like I’m an idiot. “How do you expect to come back from that?”
“Easy. I’ll blame everything on you. Everything was great before you started meddling.”
She sits again.
Awesome.
“I didn’t want to tell you this, but it looks like I’m going to have to.”
“What?”
“Peter’s willing to kill you himself if I don’t do it. He has a gun.”
“Liar! We don’t believe in keeping weapons around the children.” That’s why I was creeping around the house with a baseball bat not long ago, instead of something more dangerous.
“He aimed it right at me.”
“It must belong to someone else.”
She shrugs. “No idea. We need to work together against him.”
“He’s myhusband.”
“You know what? If you want to die, that’s on you. I’ve been trying to help you, but since you don’t want to listen to me, your fate is on you.” She rises.
“Can you blame me for not trusting you? You’ve given me exactly no reason to believe anything you say.”
“I’m telling you, the man will kill both of us if given the chance. You have two choices—run or take him out first.”
I shake my head. “Neither of those is an option.”
“It’s your funeral. Literally.” She starts to walk away.
“Wait.”
Jane turns around and looks at me with a hint of a smile.
I can’t believe I stopped her.
“Yes?”
