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take a nap. But I will pick her up tomorrow,” Kait added very firmly.
    Elizabeth nodded tightly, her brows furrowed above her tortoiseshell glasses. Then she left the house, her stride long and athletic, the door closing behind her.
    Kait hesitated, torn between the urge to confront Trev Coleman for her sister’s sake, and to flee as far from him as she could. She was still reeling from the shock of his handing her divorce papers—and from his being cold and nasty about it.
Lana hadn’t said a thing.
Could she have been oblivious to her husband’s feelings?
    Kait found it hard to believe that she would be ignorant of the state of her marriage. But she would not be the first woman to be told by a spouse that he wanted a divorce. Sometimes, one simply refused to see the writing on the wall.
    A chair slid back. Kait flinched and looked at Trev Coleman as he stood up. “You never pick up Marni,” he said.
    “
Never
is a very strong word,” she returned nervously.
    “So the games begin,” he murmured, not pleasantly.
    Fear slid up and down her spine. She backed up. She needed help here, she realized, and anger flashed within her. She had walked into Lana’s life, assuming it to be a pleasant one, never dreaming that she was entering a war zone. Kait realized that she had to speak with her sister immediately. Lana had said in her letter that she would call her in two days when she was on her way back to Fox Hollow. That had implied that she would be out of touch until then. But Kait wasn’t going to wait two days to speak with her sister—if Lana didn’t know about the divorce, she needed to know immediately. And, even more important, Kait needed advice on how to deal with Trev Coleman.
    Kait swallowed hard. “I don’t know what you’re talking about.”
    He made a sound of disgust.
    Kait fled. She quickly moved into the foyer and paused beside a window, watching the housekeeper driving away in the dusty Land Rover. Her temples throbbed. Was Lana still carrying Kait’s purse with her cell phone? Would she pick up? God, Coleman was so hateful—her sister had to have known what was coming.
    How had their storybook marriage come to this?
    Then she heard his footsteps approaching in the corridor and any relief at being briefly alone vanished. Kait tensed instinctively and looked up. Trev was walking toward her. He didn’t look at her, but she was helpless and she watched him as he stepped right past her and went outside without a single word. A moment later she watched him climbing into the big blue Dodge pickup parked there.
    Her heart lurched as she turned away from the window while he drove off. And finally she was truly alone.
    What was going on? Did everyone dislike her sister? Was it possible? After all, Fox Hollow was her home, too. But that awful worker, Max, clearly had an ax to grind, and so did the housekeeper. And as for Trev Coleman, he was not the first husband to want a divorce, but he seemed to be furiously angry with her sister and just barely containing himself. Why?
    And Kait was angry, too. Lana should have warned her about the issues she would face when trading places with her. She should have warned her just in case Coleman did exactly as he had—in case he changed his plans and appeared unexpectedly at Fox Hollow. But the truth was, even as children, Lana had always known when to omit the truth in order to get what she wanted. However, they weren’t children anymore, and what they were doing was immoral and terribly wrong. Lana should have been more honest with her.
    Kait took a deep breath and calmed down. Her sister did have a good excuse for her behavior—she was being threatened by that Paul Corelli, and so was her daughter. That might make anyone distracted, thoughtless, and selfishly determined to do whatever had to be done.
    At least she had passed the first series of tests—no one knew she was covering for her sister. Somehow, she had pulled it off when they were as opposite as