I know how you used to deal with people who crossed you.”

“You’re the one who hired those men,” I said.

“I gave them forty-one thousand dollars out of the lake lot account to make her leave town,” she said, touching her diamond pendant with two shaking fingers.

“I told them you ordered it.

I told them you wanted her gone before the twins came.

Please, Garrett.

Don’t send them after me.”

“Did Chloe know about it?” I asked.