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more than it was. I hadn’t expected him to continue dating, to go off to graduate school and leave me behind. If he hadn’t done that, I might have pushed the issue some; I might have convinced him then that we were meant to be together. But I thought I had time. And he wasn’t the only one who wanted to sow a few wild oats, you know.”
    “You agreed to a divorce.”
    “Yeah, but I made sure the paperwork would get lost so that if he ever filed for a marriage license…well, you know.”
    “You set us up.”
    “When he came around and started talking about you…Harley, this, and Harley, that…I got tired of it really fast. But I couldn’t tell him that. There were other ways to sabotage your relationship.”
    “What did you think was going to happen, Margaret? That I would leave him over your ill-fated marriage and you would swoop in to save the day? Not the best plan in the world.”
    “No, but it worked for a while. And then Bonnie came to me and told me what Daddy was up to. Told me how you had something you were taking to a reporter that would ruin Daddy’s reputation and possibly put him in jail. I couldn’t let you do that. So, I figured if you were dead, it would kill two birds with one stone…if you know what I mean.”
    “Is that why? You thought you would win Xander back if I was dead.”
    “I thought that I’d waited long enough. I’ve known Xander Boggs since I was five years old. He was mine to do with as I pleased. And then you walked in and suddenly he doesn’t have time to have dinner with me, to listen to my troubles, to be my date to the occasional party. Breaking up with you wasn’t enough. I needed you gone.”
    “You wanted him because he was no longer alone and miserable. Because he wasn’t free to be your second choice.”
    “He was mine first. And you…you come along, and it’s not enough to steal Xander from me. You had to steal my daddy, too.”
    I shook my head, disgusted by her selfishness. “You could have gone and found a man of your own.”
    “I had two men: Daddy and Xander.”
    “So you drove the car that hit me.”
    “You’re too predictable, Harley. You jog past that damn storefront every morning at the same time every day. All I had to do was wait around the block. When you went past, I just gunned it. If you hadn’t turned and seen me, I probably would have smashed you against the concrete wall of that building, but you turned and the angle wasn’t right. That’s why you flew into that stupid palm tree instead.”
    I nodded. I could see it; I had seen it multiple times in my memories since climbing out of bed this morning. I kept telling myself that I was remembering it wrong, that my memory was playing tricks on me. But it was there, strong and definitive. And exactly how she described it.
    “So what do you want now? Do you think that I’m just going to walk away now that everything is over, now that Xander and I are finally back together?”
    “Oh, I know you won’t. But you know, this part of Los Angeles is nice and everything, but there has been a string of home invasions in this neighborhood over the last few months. A woman even got shot a few blocks over when she surprised the burglars at work.”
    As she said it, she pulled a gun out from under the table. It was a good-sized piece, a forty-five maybe. I grew up on a ranch in Texas. I knew guns. And I knew a gun that size had a good kick, but it was also accurate. And the human body makes for a pretty big target.
    I stepped back against the wall and held my arms up so that she could see my hands.
    “You really can’t believe that Xander won’t put two and two together and figure out what you’ve done.”
    “He’ll forgive me just like Daddy did.”
    “Your dad?”
    “Who do you think helped me get the car fixed after your little accident? You may be a petite girl, but you left one hell of a dent in the front of my car.”
    “Grant knew?”
    “Of course he knew. He sent me out of town