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Chapter 22: Support System

"Did you want to talk about it?"

She didn't, not really, but he had rescued her so it seemed rude not to give him something.

"Your dad seems to think I did something to Cole." She picked at her French fries, appetite gone. The ketchup looked too much like blood, anyway.

Todd laughed. It made her insides shiver. "He can't be serious."

"What, you don't believe him?" Emily rolled her eyes. "I'm, like, the most viable suspect, aren't I?"

"I know you're innocent." A bite of burger disappeared behind his lips. It wasn't food she wanted after all.

"Thanks for the vote. But I don't think you get one."

"What about Devon?" Was that a hint of jealousy? Cool.

"What about him?" She sat back, pushing aside the paper wrapper, food untouched. "He's just trying to find his own brother, you know?"

"Weird about the doll." Todd's eyes never left hers. "Wonder how it got there?"