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gaze. “I have no idea what you’re talking
about.”
    “Oh, really?” I drew in a sharp breath,
scenting the spicy potpourri in the room that should bring comfort,
but didn’t. My blood burned wicked hot. I tightened my fists in
preparation to knock his damn teeth out. “It’s a coincidence then,
that you did your best to ensure Kipp vanished, so I needed your
help.” My voice rose louder. “Help I could only obtain if I came to
solve the murder of your father-in-law.”
    He avoided my gaze, looking to the hardwood
floor. “It wasn’t my original intention.”
    Gretchen took my hand, squeezing tight,
probably to ensure I didn’t butcher Dane. Maybe she realized where
I was going with this. “But your intentions changed, didn’t
they?”
    He slowly lifted his head, eyes darkened.
“Perhaps, but it doesn’t change the fact I don’t agree with your
relationship.” He looked at Wayde, who stood in silence, likely in
shock I had kicked Dane in the nuts. “No one here does.”
    My anger burned deeper, but I couldn’t deny
the truth to his statement, since disgust filled Wayde’s
expression. “Guess what?” I spat, staring both men down. “I don’t
give a shit what either of you think.”
    Wayde snorted as he took a seat on the chaise
by the fireplace, covered in the mud from my boots, which he didn’t
seem to mind. “Loving a ghost is wrong.” His features twisted.
“Sordid.”
    Disregarding Wayde and his stupid opinions, I
focused on Dane. “Did you know Kipp was in a coma?” It all seemed
to come together like some sick puzzle, and my stomach churned as
if I had drunk sour milk. At Dane’s silence, I shouted, “Did you
know?”
    His eyes became ice cold. “Max told me the
day I arrived.”
    Max, the Sergeant I worked for on the
cold-case files, thought I needed guidance with my gifts and went
out to find it. He brought Dane into my life and a shit load of
trouble, too.
    Gretchen squeezed my hand so tight it hurt
and shame sounded thick on her voice. “Dane, how could you?”
    I pinched my eyes shut and inhaled the woodsy
scent from the crackling fire to calm the rage pulsating in my
veins before I opened them to Dane again. “This was never about my
loving Kipp and holding him back. It couldn’t have been, because
you knew all along that he couldn’t cross over. It’s always been
about you getting me to help you because you knew full well I
wouldn’t do it without a good reason.”
    My voice elevated and my body shook from the
inside out. “You came to Memphis not to help me, but to prove my
abilities were accurate. Then, you found a way to force my hand to
help you—through Kipp.”
    The only indication my words affected him was
his nostril flare, but I wasn’t nearly done. After seeing what
happened to Alexander, there was a very good reason why Kipp
vanished. “Did you cast a spell on him to force him into the
Netherworld?”
    Dane stared at me dead-on. “No, I did not. ”
    While no deception showed in his features,
how could I believe him? I willed myself to think straight, calm
down, and piece it all together. “But if you didn’t force him away,
then how would you know Kipp would go into the Netherworld?”
    “I didn’t.” His intense gaze was serious
before he once again lowered his head. “But I hoped.”
    Amelia dropped down next to him on the couch
as if her legs held no strength. “No, that can’t be true. You
didn’t go to Memphis for that reason. You went there because father
asked you to.”
    Wayde, who had stayed silent, cleared his
throat. “Alexander asked you to meet with Tess?” He looked mildly
befuddled that Alexander hadn’t asked him, or maybe that he hadn’t
been told, since by all appearances, this was a new development to
him.
    Who knew why it bothered him—who freaking
cared!
    Lifting his head, Dane nodded at Wayde, then
said to me, “Alexander learned about you from Max and asked me to
look into your abilities. I arranged to see you before