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That evening, Caroline struggled to relax. She was having trouble focusing her mind on any one thing right now, and that was a major problem. Being the Senior Investigating Officer on a murder investigation was no small task, and required full attention at all times. But then so did a lot of other things in her life right now.
Mark, to his credit, seemed to have taken her words the previous evening to heart. He’d seemed genuinely pacified when she looked him in the eye and told him she wasn’t keeping any secrets. She, on the other hand, felt dreadful for her lies. But her concern right now wasn’t for herself.
She’d come home that day to find a selection of snacks and drinks waiting for her in the ‘fun’ fridge, as they called it, in the garage. Mark had been into town and stocked up o
