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“Hi, is Tara home?”
Hastily, He pulled the blanket he was arranging down and spun around; the panic he felt at the thought that Emily’s body had been seen subsided when he saw that it was only Daisy Hawkins, and she showed no sign of being aware of what he had done, or of what he was doing.
“Not yet,” He said, pleased that he sounded completely normal.
Daisy might not have seen anything suspicious, but when Emily was discovered missing, she was bound to mention that she had seen him at the house, and when. No matter how stupid Sergeant Mitchell was, He didn’t imagine he would have any difficulty connecting his presence at the house with Emily’s disappearance. Since that was the case, He couldn’t allow Daisy to tell anyone he had been there, he wasn’t sure what to do about her, thoug
