A man was lying on the sidewalk, eyes closed, covered in tattered blankets.” When I got near the pond, I saw a crowd gathered. “A few days after her funeral, I went to the park without her for the first time. “She called it the Strolling Aimlessly Game.” I steeled myself against the memory, letting my eyelids open. “My mom and I used to go for walks in the park.” I shut my eyes so that I could concentrate on the facts and not the intensity with which Jameson locked on to my every word. It had been less than a month since I’d first stepped into the palatial Texas mansion and a week since we’d solved the mystery of why I’d been brought there. The two of us were in the tunnels beneath Hawthorne House-alone, where no one else could hear us. “It was right after my mother’s funeral,” I said. There was nothing-and no one-that set Jameson Hawthorne’s blood pumping like a mystery.

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