MARI

"Are you sure the house is safe?" I asked still clutching myself to Oliver’s side. I had no plans to let him out of my sight, and he didn’t appear concerned with letting me go either. We answered questions from a slew of men in matching black shirts who looked like they were straight off the Navy base, two uniformed police officers, and the town’s detective, Anderson.

"Yes, we’ve swept it ourselves. She was here alone," Ridge Jefferson, the leader of ...