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Just like the note that she’d found on her old house said.

With one more glance at Jason, she hurried across the street. In thirty seconds, she’d let herself into the house and closed the door.

She was nearly certain no one had seen her.

Olive paused just inside the door and glanced around the home. She needed to find that medicine, take a picture of the bottles, and get out of here.

She hurried through the living room, searching as she walked for any medicine bottles. She hadn’t seen any medicine bottles in this room when they did the interview.

She paused in the kitchen and quickly searched the cabinets.

She still didn’t see any medicine.

Next, she headed to Rebecca’s bedroom.

When she stepped into the room, she paused. A hospital bed was shoved into the corner, and a regular king-sized bed filled the middle of the space.

Olive supposed that wasn’t suspicious within itself. But if this disease was fake, then Rebecca truly had gone to the extreme.

Snapping from her thoughts, she headed to the dresser.

Sure enough, uncountable orange and white medicine bottles stood like a miniature city there.

Working as quickly as possible, Olive began to take pictures with her phone.

Just as she snapped the last one, her phone buzzed.

She glanced at the screen and saw a text from Jason:

Someone just pulled into the driveway and is heading inside. Get out now.

CHAPTER 53

Olive heard the front door open.

Her heart raced as she realized what was happening.

She didn’t have time to get out of the house. Heading toward the back door would put her right in line with the front door.

She had to make a quick decision.

She ducked into the closet, leaving the door cracked just enough to peer out.

As she stood there in the darkness waiting, she texted Jason:

Man or woman?

He replied back:

Man. Never seen him before.

Olive had to wonder if this was the same guy who’d come while Nova was looking through the mailbox.

But why would that man come back now? If Rebecca and Matt were heading home from the hospital, it would be strange for him to come here to pick up something. The timing was off.

Maybe this guy wanted to grab something before Rebecca and Matt got home so he wouldn’t be seen.

The soft pad of footsteps on the carpet sounded in the hallway.