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I wasn’t sure that I agreed, but I kept my mouth shut. I knew very little about detectives and undercover work.
Natalie got up to leave when I thought of something else. “You said that you were to meet Max at your place?”
Natalie nodded. “Yes, the night before last.”
“Why?”
She shrugged. “He called me, said that he had found out something that might change the case. Apparently there wasn’t a whole lot of love between Knox and Max, so he said he would rather speak with me.”
I let out a small huff. “That is just like Max, to try so damn hard to do the right thing and still get it in the end.”
My eyes filled with tears again. “I can’t believe he’s gone.”
The doorbell rang again and this time both Natalie and Brian got their guns. I was sent to the kitchen with Candice and told to keep quiet. There was a long pause before a gun fired and Brian yelled out, “Fuck!”
I knew that I was supposed to stay back, but when I heard the shot, something came over me and I had to know if Brian was one more victim to add to my chain of deaths.
I raced into the foyer and saw Natalie bent over laughing along with a blonde woman standing in the doorway looking horrified. Brian was cursing and looking at the mantle, which now had a brand new bullet hole.
“What happened?”
Natalie smiled. “Brian shot your ghost.”
CHAPTER 17
Sutton
“You shot the Gray Lady?” I gasped, not sure why I was so horrified. I mean, she was dead.
Brian shook his head. “No, it was an officer. I reacted the moment I caught his uniform. It took me a moment to realize that it was sadly out of date,- something from another century.”
“And transparent,” Natalie added helpfully.
The woman on my doorstep looked terrified.
“I beg your pardon.” I stepped forward. “Are you Margaret?”