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I had seen her less when I was married to her.
Her face hardened. “The sheriff has commitments, remember? He serves the entire county.”
Kind of weird she had referred to him asthe sheriff.
“I remember,” I answered, “But I didn’t realize you had to come along, too.”
“I—” She let out a huff. “I like coming. It gives me a break for a night.” Her eyes widened before she added, “I mean, it gives us both a break. Together.”
It was then that I noticed it.
The tiredness in her voice.
The dark circles.
I didn’t know why I cared, but the words came out anyway. “Are you okay?”
She took a step back, a flash of surprise that was quickly replaced with anger. “Of course I am. Why wouldn’t I be? I have everything I want.”
She thought that blow would hurt.
It used to.
“Have a nice day, Kristy,” I said before turning my attention back to Marin. She placed her free hand on our cart, and we started to make our exit.
“Macon,” a soft voice called after me.
I turned to see my ex-wife standing there, looking more like the woman I had married. Only this version of her was difficult to look at. She looked stripped bare and utterly wrecked.
“You have to stop pushing him,” she said.
“What?” I didn’t know what the hell she was talking about.
“He doesn’t like to feel threatened. And lately?—”
He feels threatened? Since when?
“He’s never been able to control me,” I said. “You know that.”
It’s why I lost you.
“He’s only going to put up with it for so long,” she said.
“Are you saying my job is on the line?” I felt my throat tighten.
Her gaze searched mine, and then suddenly, it was like a wall came down. “Just…be careful,” she said, straightening her spine before turning and walking off.
I turned back to Marin, and I saw the fear in my own eyes staring back at me.
I was trained to do one thing on this island.
What would I do if that was taken away from me?
I tried to relax. I tried to plaster a fake smile across my face.
“Well, that was weird,” I said, pushing our cart as far away from Kristy as I could.
“You’re not worried?” she asked, the lines on her forehead deep with concern. “About what she said?”
