“So what’s the situation?” Jasmine asked as she careened into the left lane, barely eking past the back end of a city bus as it chugged along. Riley pumped the imaginary brake beneath her foot. “Mrs. Penny and Mr. Willicott went rogue, and instead of watching Theodoric’s house, they wandered inside when the housekeeper took out the trash. Why would they do that when we explicitly told them not to do anything illegal or suspicious? Great question. We’ll have to ask them when we’re all crammed in the back seat of a police cruiser heading to jail.” She was winded by the time she hit the end of
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