e’d had a plan. A detailed, meticulously thought-out plan that Campbell was apparently content to unilaterally amend at the last minute.

I was going to kill her.

Completely unbothered by my ire, she’d suggested that we should meet in person—at Lily’s parents’ place, where we wouldn’t be overheard.

“What in the name of God’s green earth are you doing?” I demanded when Lily and I arrived to find Campbell lying on her stomach on a pristine white lawn chair beside the pool.

Campbell replied without so much as bothering to roll over. “It feels like the first day of summer, doesn’t it?”

“It’s mid-April,” Lily said flatly.

“Regardless,” Campbell continued, “this place is practically abandoned, and I could hardly lay out by my pool. If my mama knew I was risking a sunburn today of all days, she would skin me alive.”

I could practically see my cousin counting backward from ten and reining in her temper. “You were supposed to send the pearls with Walker so that we could plant them in your father’s car for the police to find.”

“No.” Campbell finally turned over and sat up to face us. “Sadie-Grace was supposed to plant the pearls in my father’s precious sports car—along with a few other choice items—after Sawyer does her due diligence and makes some teeny tiny alterations to its engine.” She shrugged. “But things change.”

“I spent the morning being tortured with cuticle shears,” I told her humorlessly. “And now I’m seriously considering the merits of tying you up in the pool house.”

Campbell had the audacity to smile. We’d planned every aspect of this day, every minute detail, and she was sitting in a bathing suit smiling at my threats.

“Good times.” Campbell yawned and stood, stretching her legs with the grace of a predator cat. “Relax, girls. I nixed the original plan because I have a better one. The pearls are exactly where they’re supposed to be.”

Now I was the one counting to ten. “And where is that?”

Campbell removed her ponytail holder and shook her tresses down her back. “Why,” she said, “on the way to my father’s mistress.”