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“You’re federal agents.”Not a question.Lark barely recognized the frozen, brittle sound of her own voice.
“Agent Theo Tutweiler,” the man who’d just called her brother a fool said.He put his hands on his hips, and the move pushed back his coat to show the badge clipped to his hip.And the holster under his arm.“And this is my partner, Jase Guillory.”
Jase’s gaze swept over her.“Did you know?”
She could only shake her head.“Know…what?”
“That your brother killed all those women.That each time he killed one, he was killing you.”
Her knees buckled.She would have slammed into the ground if Oliver hadn’t caught her.For a moment, she wanted to lean back against him.To soak up his strength.
But…
“No.”She broke free of him.Some blind instinct had her running after the patrol car—the one that had just taken her brother away.Her twin.Her only family.
This wasn’t happening.It couldn’t be happening.
Wrong.
Wrong.
Wrong.
Her brother…he wouldn’t…he would never…
“Lark.”Oliver closed his fingers over her shoulder.He’d caught her so easily.“I’ll take you to the police station, if that’s what you want.But he’s going to be booked.You aren’t going to see Lane tonight.You…Lark, look at me.”
She didn’t want to look at him.Her breath heaved in and out.In and out.But her gaze—her traitorous gaze—locked on his face.
“I suspected for some time, but I recently found the proof we needed.Your brother was just arrested for three murders.Do you hear what I’m saying?Do you understand?”His voice hardened.“I got you away tonight so you wouldn’t witness all of this.He wasn’t supposed to text you—I was going to tell you about his arrest after he’d been taken into custody.”
He didn’t take me to that fancy restaurant to confess his love.He took me there so I wouldn’t be in the way when his men arrested my brother.
“The plan went to shit,” he growled.“You got the messages from him, you were coming here, and I…fuck me, I didn’t tell you before we arrived, and I should have.I should have.I should have—”
Her body wasn’t cold.It was numb.The chaos around her?It no longer registered.“You think my brother is a serial killer.”
“It’s not what I think.It’s what the evidence—”
“How long…how long did you suspect him?”
His grip tightened on her.“We shouldn’t talk about this out here.You have to be questioned, but I’ve told my men to wait.You need some time.I’ll take you to a hotel and you can rest.Tomorrow will be soon enough for the interview with you.”
I’ve told my men…His orders.Oliver’s plans.“You did…all of this.”
He stepped closer.Big, strong, lying Oliver stepped closer.
“How long did you suspect him?”she asked again, but the knife that had just stabbed into her heart told her the answer even before he said—
“Before I ever walked into your flower shop.”
Of course.Of course, that would be why he’d come into the shop.Tears slid down her cheeks.She wished that she could have blinked them away, but it just wasn’t possible.They poured too fast from her eyes.“He’s my only family.”
“He’s akiller.”
She shook her head.“He wouldn’t hurt a woman.Not ever.”
“He did.We found evidence.Hell,Ifound evidence when I was going through those boxes in your basement—”
