Dig Two Graves by Gretchen McNeil

Author:Gretchen McNeil [McNeil, Gretchen]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Disney Book Group
Published: 2022-02-16T00:00:00+00:00

TWENTY-TWO

NEVE’S MIND RACED AS SHE DROVE HOME FROM HOLY NAME, her thoughts moving almost as quickly as her pulse.

Diane had just attempted to kill her stepbrother, and if Neve hadn’t been there to warn him, she would have succeeded. Neve let that reality sink in for a moment.

What the hell was Diane playing at? She’d spent a ridiculous amount of time and energy setting Neve up: recording her murder “confession,” stealing her dad’s cap, not to mention KILLING AN INNOCENT PERSON. Why take any of those risks? Why manipulate Neve into killing Javier when she was obviously willing to do it herself?

There had to be a reason, something Neve was missing. Diane might have been a sociopath, but she wasn’t an idiot.

Neve thought of yesterday’s phone conversation when she’d slipped and told Diane what she’d been theoretically planning—to use her car and run Javier down after batting practice when the school was practically deserted. Was it a coincidence that the very next day, a car bore down on Javier in the exact same way?

Neve tensed, her foot easing up on the accelerator even though she was still on the freeway. What had Javier said? I never even heard that car coming. She pictured the car rushing past her, small and black. And silent.

Silent because it was an electric car. A black one, exactly like what Neve was driving now.

She gasped. It wasn’t a coincidence that Diane was driving a black electric car. She’d have put money on the fact that it was, in fact, a Chevy Bolt and that the Holy Name Academy’s grounds were literally riddled with security cameras that would have picked up not only the hit-and-run, but probably Neve sitting in the parking lot both the day of the accident and the day before.

Diane wasn’t merely attempting to blackmail Neve into killing Javier: She was trying to frame her—or worse, her dad—for his murder.

For some reason, this epiphany had an oddly relaxing effect. Her grip on the wheel loosened, her jaw unclenched, and the knotted muscles in her shoulders began to unwind. If Diane was planning to kill Javier anyway, there was absolutely no reason for Neve to do her dirty work. Not that she’d been planning to, but she’d been unable to prevent her mind from plotting a murder, and even if she’d never truly have gone through with it, merely thinking about taking a human life had been disturbing.

Bruno’s line from Strangers on a Train felt all the more poignant.

Of course, that still left another problem: saving Javier’s life. She’d done it once, but could she guarantee she’d be there the next time Diane made an attempt? Short of transferring to Holy Name, Neve wasn’t sure how she could protect him. She wasn’t exactly a trained bodyguard, nor was she a femme fatale with a heart of gold who could use her looks and overt sexuality to keep Javier safe, like Bacall lighting Bogie a cigarette before she cut him loose in The Big Sleep. Those characters only existed in fiction.

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