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“True.” She made a face. “After his numerous attempts to kill me, he’s now trying the equivalent of saying just kidding.”

“Maybe we need to take another look in Christopher's office. Though she’s probably scrubbed it clean of anything that would even remotely implicate her, there’s always the possibility that she might have missed something.”

Vanessa brightened. “Good idea. Though I’m thinking the Sheriff or the FBI would have gotten a search warrant by now.”

“I’ll double-check.” Privately, he thought if they hadn’t, then no one was doing their job. He noticed the worry written on her face and tried to cheer her up, "It's going to be over soon," he assured her, "Things are like this now because we're closing up on them and we're coming to the end of all this. You've been strong and brave the entire time. You can't stop now,"

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Alaric returned from the station and Vanessa could tell from the look on his face that something was up. Alaric looked as if he had been run over b