The Billion-Dollar Dirt Farm

. "Sarah, let's go outsid

here's nothing to talk a

to something ugly. "Don't

out in the suddenly silent courthou

ng to look innocent, fiddling wi

pecific

s poison. "Mark has such good taste. Especially when he's

pale. Mark looked li

audience of townsfolk. "He told me it was for his 'stepsister' Bren.

o also worked part-time at the diner with B

. "Mr. Abernathy mentioned a young man buying that exact pi

ed, "I... Mark

"The money I lent him to 'fix his car'?

erved for "poor, devoted Sarah" was shifting, morphing into

fury and humiliation. "Yo

e truth for once?" I looked him straight

! You want it to be over? It's over! I'm breaking up wi

ome on, Bren. Let's get out

rthouse, the eyes of the town

as now looking at me with a mixtu

oice calm. "About t