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Rebecca, however, didn’t seem ready to give up.

“It is what it is,” Rebecca murmured before stomping from the room.

As she watched, a different idea began to form in Olive’s mind.

What if she’d been looking at this wrong all along? At least, what if she’d been looking atmostof this wrong? She wasn’t ready to voice any of her theories out loud. They needed more time to simmer.

The problem was she still needed to prove what was going on.

At least, proving Rebecca was faking it was what Olive thought she needed to do from the start.

The truth was, she didn’t have to prove it . . . if Rebecca and Matt simply owned up to what they were doing.

But how would she get them to do that?

Jason muted the volume again and then stepped closer to her. “We should probably get going.”

Olive glanced at the time. It was only smart to get out of here, especially since that guy said he would be coming back.

But as she glanced around again, she noticed a door in the corner. It appeared to be metal, and the marks on the floor indicated it had recently been opened.

She nodded toward it. “I want to check that out before we leave.”

She crept toward it, still holding her gun, just in case.

Carefully, she jerked it open.

As she did, a terrible scent hit her.

The scent of death.

Jason shone his light into the space.

A dead woman wearing scrubs stared back at them, and Olive instinctively knew it was Anne, the missing nurse Mitzi had tried to get in contact with.

CHAPTER 59

“What do you want to do?” Jason asked.

Olive stared at Anne, regret filling her. “If we call the police right now, we’re going to have a lot of explaining to do about why we’re here.”

“We just can’t let this woman’s body rot here.”

“I agree.” Olive’s thoughts continued to race until she knew what she needed to do. “We’re going to leave this place as we found it. When we get halfway back to Oasis, I’m going to anonymously call the police. I’ll tell them what we found and have them come out. That will also keep us off their radar for now.”

Jason stared at her. “You sure that’s what you want?”

“I’m positive.”

He drew in a deep breath and nodded. “Okay then. Let’s get out of here before that guy comes back and catches us.”

They hurried up the steps and locked the doors behind them. Olive carefully wiped away any fingerprints from the door handles using the edge of her sweatshirt. Then they hurried to Jason’s SUV.

They were both quiet as they headed down the road, no doubt each lost in their own thoughts.

Olive hadn’t expected to find a dead body.

Did Anne know too much? Was that why she’d been killed?

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