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“Don’t do that.” I couldn’t stand to see him hurting.
“What if I could’ve kept those people from being killed? What if he did it to get my attention?” Anger seeped from every pore in his body.
I swallowed hard.
Bzzz. Bzzz. Bzzz.
Sadie let out an annoyed sigh as Teague’s phone lit up on the nightstand. He reached behind him blindly and checked the caller ID.
“Yo.”
Based on his answer, I guessed it was Burke. Teague’s brows knit and he put it on speaker.
“Sorry to call so early.” Definitely Burke.
“I was up,” Teague said gruffly.
“Willa was able to identify one of the bodies in the barrels.” He didn’t sound as happy about that as I thought.
“That’s good news.”
Maybe this was a break in the case. Hopefully it would unravel all our conspiracy theories that were beginning to seem not-so-far-fetched.
“I can’t make a connection,” Burke said in frustration. “Does the name Sally Mims ring a bell?”
My heart stopped.
“No,” Teague said as if trying to think.
“I’ll keep digging.”
“Thanks for letting me know.” Teague ended the call and tossed the phone between us. “Pepper? Are you trying to sever my arm?”
My fingers were curled around his bicep in a death grip.
Blood poured in my ears like thunder. My whole body shook.
“Pepper?” Teague sat up.
“Sally Mims is my aunt.”
Chapter Thirty-Five
Teague
Her aunt?
Like I was in a fog, her words slowly sunk into my brain. As they replayed in my mind, the more it rejected them. One of those people couldn’t be Pepper’s aunt.
“She died in a fire, right?” Realization hit me like bricks falling on my head. “That letter didn’t say where . . .”
Pepper trembled violently in my arms. “The house burned down.”
“That doesn’t mean they were in it.”
She covered her mouth with her hand. A long, thick silence descended upon us as reality set in.
We likely didn’t need DNA to identify the people in the other two barrels.
