He sat in the living room of the safe house with Gabe and Annie. He was about to break the news to Annie and feared how she was going to handle it. She’d already been through so much. But he’d told her that he wasn’t going to keep her in the dark, and it was better for her to know all the facts. “Okay,” she said. “By the frowns on both of your faces, I’m assuming you have some bad news for me. So you might as well just rip the Band-Aid off.” “You want to tell her?” Gabe asked. Caleb nodded. Yes, this was his responsibility. He wasn’t going to push it off on his friend. “I’m sorry to have to tell you this, but Phil Perry’s body was discovered.” She sucked in a breath. “He was killed?” “Yes. The medical examiner hasn’t given official cause of death yet, but it was clearly a homicide.” “McCoy killed him,”
