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Leo nodded. “Like logs.”

Jessamy leaned forward then, her eyes narrowed. “Did you take them outside after they fell asleep?”

My question exactly.

She was good at this.

“I might’ve helped them outside,” Leo said.

“Is that an admission?” Gentry asked.

“Shaky,” I admitted. “But it directly contradicts what he told me that day.”

“Did you kill them, Leo?” Jessamy asked. “Did you take them outside and leave them to freeze to death?”

“They walked on their own.” Leo shrugged. “I just helped them stay outside.”

“How?” Dempsey asked.

Leo didn’t answer.

“How?” Jessamy repeated.

“They walked outside on their own,” Leo explained. “But to help them stay in their chairs, I might’ve duct taped them to it.”

Jessamy hissed in a breath.

Dempsey looked at me through the mirror but didn’t otherwise react.

“Son of a bitch,” Gentry said. “This kid is fucking creepy.”

“Yeah,” I agreed.

“Leo, did you burn down Camp Grizzly yesterday?” Jessamy asked.

Leo looked her dead in the eyes and said, “Yeah. Unfortunate that he wasn’t at home like he was supposed to be. And your sheriff is next. I see I made a miscalculation with Milo. You’re not interested in him like that. But after what I just saw with you and the sheriff…no one but me can have you.”

Jessamy kept going. “Did you kill our grandmother?”

Leo leaned forward, slapping his hands hard across the table. “She tried to take you from us. I wasn’t going to allow that.”

Jesus fucking Christ.

“This is one hell of an unhealthy obsession,” Gentry murmured. “Killing every single person that takes her from him. Or tries to. His parents. His grandparents. Milo. Threat against you.”

I was just glad that she had me now.

“Write down exactly what you did,” Jessamy ordered. “Start with our grandfather and grandmother. Then our parents. What you did with Milo yesterday. Then what you plan to do to Sheriff Black.”

Jessamy sat there for twenty-five minutes as Leo wrote down every single thing that he did, or planned to do.

When he was done, he handed it to her.

Jessamy handed the page off to Dempsey and stood.

“I’ll kill them all,” he said when Jessamy stood to leave. “If they try to take you away.”

Jessamy stared at him for a long few seconds before she said, “I was never yours to begin with.”