Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following:

• Grab your current read
• Open to a random page
• Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page (yes, I generally share a bit more… but it’s just so exciting…)

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“What did you do with that religious medal Jessie was wearing when we… took her?”
“I have it locked safely away. I would never throw away a religious item. Why are you asking?”
“I’m asking because Jessie was a Catholic. We are Baptists. We robbed her of her religion among other things.”
“What has gotten into you Barnes? None of this has ever bothered you before. Why now all of a sudden?”
“I don’t know, Thea. I have these awful guilt feelings. I haven’t slept well since… that day.”
“Get over it! That’s what you tell me all the time. Don’t even think about asking me to give her up. Did you set up that trust fund for her?”
“I did that last year. She will inherit from both of us. The trust fund is doing nicely. When she’s eighteen she can draw from it if she wants to. It doesn’t seem right. I wish there was a way to send money to her parents. You didn’t read the papers after the… afterward. I did, but not right away. Later on there were updates on the anniversary of the kidnapping. That’s when I started to pay attention…”