X's and O's (Saint View Murder Squad, #1)

by Elle Thorpe

I love ducks.” “You do?” My mom’s advice, about finding out the things Violet liked and getting them for her,

“I’ll get you one.” “Wait—”

“You just…you caught a duck.”

“Holy crap, he bit me!” “I will snap it’s filthy neck!”

“You wouldn’t have really snapped his neck, right?”

“Is this one of those times where you want me to say yes, because that would be me protecting you? Or is it one of those times where you get scared of me because I did the socially unacceptable thing?” “Maybe a bit of both?” “Then I plead the Fifth.”