The Inmate

by Freida McFadden

But for some reason, I can’t turn off Shane Nelson’s voice inside my head. Stay away from Tim Reese. He’s dangerous. Please, Brooke.

Or Kayla lying on the bed, her chest covered in fresh blood, her eyes staring up at the ceiling.

Tim was only one in house....

Marcus Hunt. Oh my God, it’s Officer Hunt.

Boom

“Some football players you might have known beat him up bad enough to put him in the hospital once.”

HE THE KILLA

“You’re the only one who had a chance to do this. It was you.”

Tim looks baffled. “He did? I thought he tried to do it with his… with his hands…”

Chelsea lets out a long sigh. “Fine. It was Tim.”

The second spoke on the snowflake is missing a diamond from the edge. Exactly like the one I used to wear.

Kelli Underwood, who disappeared two days ago. She was discovered to be missing when she didn’t show up for her waitressing job. Waitressing job?

who yelled at me for testifying against Shane and told me to stay away from Tim.

And I can’t say I don’t love being loved. “I love you too.”

Does Tim have a mannequin wrapped in a tarp in his basement? Don’t kid yourself, Brooke. You know exactly what you’re looking at. Her scarf is lying on the coffee table upstairs.

Oh God. It’s locked.

“Please…” Tim’s face is turning pink as the cop snaps the cuffs on his wrists. “I don’t know what’s in my basement, but I didn’t put her there. I swear to you…”

Or hunt set him up

have to do whatever I can to make this right.

But even as the words are coming out of my mouth, I know I will live to regret them.

Shane lays a hand on his chest. “I swear, I will protect him with my life.”

It will be fine. Shane is Josh’s father. He won’t let anything happen to him.

Oh God. It’s him. It’s Hunt. He was found dead—possibly today.

Tim and Shane did it together.

Okay so a little Scream situation

What a strange coincidence that Margie would happen to be coming down this road right now. But I can’t dwell on that. There’s no time.

“Yes, I do.” She shakes the gun at me. “Because I’m the one who stabbed Chelsea.”

known. I always believed Tim Reese was a good man. I should’ve trusted my gut.

school just to help pay the mortgage here.” She pauses. “Those two deserved to die. I would have done it anyway—even if I didn’t have to do it to get you to come back here.” I clasp a hand over my mouth. My parents’ accident. I had thought it was an act of God, but apparently not. This woman killed them. She’s even crazier than I gave her credit for.

He is such a good son. He would do anything for his mother. Anything

He doesn’t even know Shane is dead.

So when Shane took me out into the woods to make that snowman, I noticed that all the trees had a lot of icicles. They looked really heavy and pointy. Shane was a lot bigger than me, so I figured if I wanted to protect my mom, this was my only chance.

A son will do ANYTHING FOR HIS MOM

I had to do what I did. After all, I would do anything for my mom.