They met at the hollow almost immediately after school, while Katie’s dad and Susan were still at work and Zoe’s grandma was enjoying an afternoon nap. Ronan was, thankfully, absent. Penny wanted to warn him about Duke’s plans to lure Susan out of town, but she didn’t want him to guess that they had been investigating the Dukes behind his back.
“You have got to tell Susan!” Katie almost shouted in her alarm at Penny’s latest news. “He’s up to something!”
“I know, Kat,” Penny interrupted, not wanting Katie to build momentum and launch into a full-blown rant.
Of course I have to tell her, Penny thought.
But I don’t want to.
She could already imagine the look of hurt, the betrayal in Susan’s eyes. She didn’t even want to be there to see it, let alone be the one to cause it.
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