A three AM phone call about a locked room changed everything

he say that?” I asked.

“He wants to help,” she said, reaching into her leather shoulder bag. “Let me buy this for you. For the girls.”

She pulled out a crisp fifty-dollar bill and held it toward me, her hand shaking slightly.

“No,” I said.

“Lily, please. It is for Mia and Chloe. It has nothing to do with what happened between us.”

“We do not need Alan’s continue reading …