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about you and that teacher?
    What about her?”
    Potter looked at me, his eyes wide like a rabbit that had been caught in the headlights of a speeding car. “I thought that was you...” he started.
    “Liar!” I screamed at him, tears streaming down my face. “I saw you! Jack showed me.”
    “That sonofabitch!” Potter shouted.
    “You’ve got to believe me, Kiera. She was a wolf.
    She did some of that mind-fucking with me.”
    “It looked like it was you who was doing all the fucking! ” I hissed.
    “It never got that far!” he yelled back at me, then took a deep breath as if refilling his punctured lungs. “I figured her out before anything like that happened.”
    “I’m surprised you didn’t figure it out sooner,” I sneered, wiping the tears from my cheek with the back of my hand. “Couldn’t you feel her hairy tongue? After all, she had it shoved far enough down the back of your throat.”
    “You’ve got to believe me, Kiera,” Potter said, shuffling towards me.
    “Back off!” I spat, raising my hands.
    “Don’t you dare touch me.”
    “I thought it was you – honestly,” Potter said. “Jack Seth set me up. You saw only what he wanted you to see. He wants you to hate me.”
    “And what about Eloisa Madison?” I roared. “Was he lying about her, too?”
    Potter looked at me as if he had been slapped across the face.
    “It’s true then?” I cried. “You and she were lovers – that’s why you ripped her heart out!”
    “I had sex with her once,” Potter said. “It was before me and you ever met.”
    “So you killed her to stop me finding out,”
    I said, glad that he was hurting.
    “No!” he yelled at me. “I killed her because she was a child murderer. Just like that teacher and all of the other wolves – they have a way of getting into your head and messing with you. She tricked me into believing that someone else was the killer while she escaped. She looked into my eyes and made me forget about her. At first I did, but then I remembered. I remembered that night in the hangar just outside of Wasp Water. She was a danger to us – she was a killer.
    That’s why I ripped her heart out.”
    “It’s true,” Murphy said from behind me.
    I span around to face him, my fist clenched. “Why should I believe a word you tell me? You’re nothing but a liar, too!”
    “I’ve never lied to you, Kiera,” Murphy said, and for once his voice wasn’t gruff or angry sounding, it was soft. “I might have kept secrets.
    But I’ve never...”
    “Secrets!” I gasped. “You’ve let me live a lie ever since I walked into your police station back in the Ragged Cove.”
    “I’m not proud of that fact,” he whispered. “But I did it to keep you alive – just like I saved your life the day I plucked you from the dead waters.”
    “You tried to drown me!” I reminded him.
    “You were already dead – or so I thought,” Murphy tried to explain. “But the moment I heard your cries I went back for you – I saved you, Kiera.”
    “Can someone please tell me what the fuck is going on here?” Potter spluttered.
    “ Shut up! ” both Murphy and I roared at him at once.
    I turned back to face Murphy.
    “I could have left you to die,” Murphy continued. “But I didn’t. I took you in my arms and...”
    “Let me live a lie,” I cut in.
    “ No! ” Murphy insisted. “I kept you away from that woman – that wolf – Kathy Seth.”
    “My mother,” I shot back.
    “She wouldn’t have been a mother to you, Kiera, not a good mother,” Murphy said. “She would have destroyed you just like she destroyed Jack. The woman was pure evil. You’ve got to understand that. She would have ruined your life.”
    “My life has been ruined,” I told him.
    “Has it?” Murphy asked me. “You grew up with your father – my brother. He was a good man and loved you more than anything.” He glanced over at the body on the floor, then back at me. “Jessica Hudson was a good woman, until Elias