Page 92 of Look at Her and Die

And she did, leaving not a single detail out.

By the time that she was finished telling me about Taryn, I wanted to hunt him down and beat the shit out of him.

But after that, I wanted to hook my winch up to his legs, while tying his arms to a tree, and rip him apart.

Honestly, that sounded so damn satisfying that I dreamed about doing it for a few seconds too long.

“What’s with that look on your face?” Searcy asked. “You look kind of evil.”

I winked. “Maybe I am.”

The timer dinged before I had to explain, and she grabbed my hand and said, “Sit.”

I did, while she shot off instructions to everyone else.

She truly was the matriarch of this family.

And, as I watched them over dinner, I realized that everyone adored her.

Even the contrary Calliope.

Twenty-Four

Someone stealing your parking spot at your own house is a different kind of feeling.

—Searcy’s secret thoughts

SEARCY

I’d just written a five hundred-thousand-dollar check.

Never in my life did I think that would be something I would have the ability to do, yet there I was, experiencing the feeling.

I was going to have a panic attack.

“Calm down, you’re shaking the bed.”

I grinned and looked over my shoulder. “I’m hyperventilating over here. Leave me alone.”

“You could be sleeping,” he grumbled.

“It’s two in the afternoon on a Wednesday,” I pointed out.

“And?” he asked.

“And we could be doing so many other things,” I responded. “Like riding through the pasture.”

“It’s eight hundred degrees outside,” he interjected. “The horses get too hot. I get too hot. I’ll teach you to ride, but it has to be first thing in the morning.”

I grimaced.

Posy and I had two very different ideas of ‘first thing in the morning.’

I rolled out of bed at seven-thirty to get the kids up and to school.

When I got back, I made everyone breakfast that wanted it—as in Posy and Yates—and brought it out to them.

Sometimes I would enjoy the show that Posy provided when he was working with his horses. Other times I’d join him riding the side-by-side to visit with him while he was working. Then there were times where I got on my computer to work and never made it out of the house after breakfast.

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