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Josie
As far as first days on the job went, today had to be one of the best. Hannah was an absolute joy, and her father wasn’t too bad either. I was about ninety percent sure he wasn’t going to murder me, and I actually found him to be rather charming in the brief moments when I managed to forget that he might have killed his wife.
Hannah had wanted me to spend the night with her, but I didn’t need to get the town’s rumor mill churning with that juicy tidbit of news. I was already noticing sideways glances and hushed whispers when I came near. Working for the only suspect in Claire’s disappearance evidently made me hot gossip fodder. I wasn’t normally one to worry about such trivial things, but I also didn’t see any reason to fan their flames.
As soon as I walked up the sidewalk to
