Instinct

"Why didn't you ever stop him?" Tom asked her. "Or at least tell me about it so I could?"

She didn't answer Tom right away, you could almost see her picking through lie after lie in her mind, and he abruptly said, "Maybe you figured once he killed me, you'd have everyone working for you."

Couldn't help wondering then if she hadn't helped in some way to drive Rosa mad, if only to get rid of her as well as Tom and Joanie. Sarah kicked my foot before I got more than a word of that out loud.

"So you think he wants to kill you," Becky said.

"Oh, yeah," Tom said, too casually. "He's had that idea in his head for a while now. That's why I took his gun after that fight with Dave. So he couldn't shoot either one of us."

She averted her eyes, but we all knew who'd planted the seed.