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“When Shane tried to… you know… he was wearing sandalwood aftershave.
Then he grabs me and kisses me.
SIR SHES MARRIED!
Okay, I more than let him. More like, I grab him by the collar and pull him closer to me like
OMG!!!
“Come on. You know I’ve been in love with you since I was four years old.”
PERIOD
“But I think we could have a better thing going.”
OMG
“I’ll never feel about anyone else the way I feel about you.”
lord tim
I grab him by his shirt and pull his lips onto mine. He kisses me back just as eagerly. And all the while, I ignore the tiniest hint of sandalwood clinging to the collar of his shirt.
OMG!!!!
his house. If anyone were going to plan it…”
period!
It’s a baseball bat.
“If he tries to come at me, I’m clocking him right in the head.”
haha
Kayla lying on the bed, her chest covered in fresh blood, her eyes staring up at the ceiling.
OMG!!! NOOO
He nods and leans in to kiss me.
OMG TIM! EW
“This is our high school yearbook,” Tim says to Josh. “Want to see how dorky your mom and I looked when we were kids?”
Omg
“Don’t worry,” he murmurs in my ear. “He’s not in it.”
Thank goodness
The name underneath is written in bold capital letters. Marcus Hunt. Oh my God, it’s Officer Hunt.
OMG!!! They went to school together
Mark Hunt.
Kayla is dead.
OMGGGGG
Hunt brings me my first patient, he comes by the examining room with a hot cup of coffee for me.
HUNT NO SIR
Hunt’s eyes light up. “Sure, Brooke.” Great. He thinks I’m going to make out with him.
Omg hunt get a grip
“That they put you in the hospital.
“I could make him really pay for what he tried to do to you. Nobody on the outside gives a shit about him. I’ll do whatever you tell me to do. I could throw him in isolation for weeks—or months. I could have him beaten up so badly, he won’t be able to walk anymore. Just you say the word.”
OMG HUNT NO!
“I don’t think you’re in any position to be making demands. You’re the one who took a job where one of your patients is a man who tried to murder you. What do you think Dorothy would say if she knew about that?”
“if you want to keep this job, maybe you should think about making some time to grab that drink with me after work.”
“You mean Tim Reese?”
HOW DID YOU KNOW 😡
“You’re spying on me?”
“I drove by your house a few times.
HUNT NO SIR 😡😡😡😡
You can’t possibly be thinking of keeping that monster’s baby, Brooke. I won’t allow it.
“you need to keep lidocaine in stock in the pharmacy. I’m not sewing up anyone else with no anesthetic. It’s inhumane. Next time there’s no lidocaine, I’m sending the inmate to the emergency room, and you can eat the cost of transportation.”
PERIOD!!!! You tell her
Today is my birthday.
Happy Birthday Brooke
Tim is in love with me.
I look closer at the necklace and notice something else that makes my heart stop. The second spoke on the snowflake is missing a diamond from the edge. Exactly like the one I used to wear.
“Up to your room now, buddy.” “But, Mom—” “Josh, now.” “I’m right in the middle of this level!” “Listen to your mom,” Tim says sternly.
Haha 😆
Fact: Assistant principals are GOOD KISSERS!!!!!
I let out a choked sob, knowing I need to get back up and run but my body feels frozen. And then the weight of a body crushes me, keeping me from getting back on my feet. And fingers grab the chain around my neck, pulling it tight.
He’s going to kill me. Tim is going to kill me with the necklace
found five bodies. Brandon Jensen on the porch—dead. Kayla Olivera in an upstairs bedroom—dead. Chelsea Cho in Shane’s bedroom—stabbed to death
Tim on the floor of the living room—bleeding and unconscious,
Shane on the floor of the living room—knocked out cold. Three de...
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because he was the one who did it.
WHAT
“Sorry about that,” he says. “Door must have stuck.”
EXCUSE ME!
“He wasn’t letting me leave, and… and there’s a dead body in the basement.”
WHOS BODY
That’s my mother’s scarf.”
missing woman named Kelli Underwood
“We got a dead body down here! Looks like Underwood!”
“Timothy Reese, you are under arrest for the murder of Kelli Underwood.”
OMG
“He wanted to come, but something happened. He did something bad, and the police found out and had to take him away.”
how did josh know?
Shane hadn’t been the one who tried to strangle me that night. It was Tim.
OMG!!
kill me with the very necklace he bought me. And then he saved it
OMG
Today, after eleven years, Shane Nelson is being released from prison.
How do you introduce your son to his father who has been in jail for murder for ten years?
great question
