Page 81 of Accidentally Vacationed with an Incubus

JENNIFER: Did he get Ms. Cadmus to the healers? I mean, hospital?

OFFICER HUGHS: I believe so.

JENNIFER: ... That’s good.

OFFICER HUGHS: So, Jennifer. You’re admitting you cut the brakes because you were annoyed with your parents for spending time away from you and letting dinner go cold?

JENNIFER: ... I guess so.

OFFICER HUGHS: Anything else you want to add, Ms. Myers?

JENNIFER:I didn’t mean to.

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Rowan’s accompanying sticky note echoed my own unease.

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Jen seems distant and detached—not like her. And why did she say she didn’t hear the engine start, or that the crash happened ten minutes later than it should have? Could someone else have killed her parents and staged the whole thing?

DID JEN ACTUALLY CUT THE BRAKES, OR DID SHE ONLY THINK SHE DID?

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A second sticky note followed, scrawled with a messy list of increasingly bizarre theories:

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Possession?Could a ghost have taken control of her? (Obviously not BooDini.)

Memory hex?Jen mentioned a bully named Priscilla—could she have cursed her?

Echo relic?Did someone else cut the brakes while wearing a relic, then pass it to Jen to implant the memory as her own?

Necromancer?Could a necromancer have reanimated the bodies to drive the car?

Voodoo?Possible, but would need a direct link to Jen or her parents.

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