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Chapters (87)
  1. TITLE PAGE
  2. COPYRIGHT
  3. DEDICATION
  4. CONTENTS
  5. START READING
  6. CHAPTER ONE
  7. CHAPTER TWO
  8. CHAPTER THREE
  9. CHAPTER FOUR
  10. CHAPTER FIVE
  11. CHAPTER SIX
  12. CHAPTER SEVEN
  13. CHAPTER EIGHT
  14. CHAPTER NINE
  15. CHAPTER TEN
  16. CHAPTER ELEVEN
  17. CHAPTER TWELVE
  18. CHAPTER THIRTEEN
  19. CHAPTER FOURTEEN
  20. CHAPTER FIFTEEN
  21. CHAPTER SIXTEEN
  22. CHAPTER SEVENTEEN
  23. CHAPTER EIGHTEEN
  24. CHAPTER NINETEEN
  25. CHAPTER TWENTY
  26. CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE
  27. CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO
  28. CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE
  29. CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR
  30. CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE
  31. CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX
  32. CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN
  33. CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT
  34. CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE
  35. CHAPTER THIRTY
  36. CHAPTER THIRTY-ONE
  37. CHAPTER THIRTY-TWO
  38. CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE
  39. CHAPTER THIRTY-FOUR
  40. CHAPTER THIRTY-FIVE
  41. CHAPTER THIRTY-SIX
  42. CHAPTER THIRTY-SEVEN
  43. CHAPTER THIRTY-EIGHT
  44. CHAPTER THIRTY-NINE
  45. CHAPTER FORTY
  46. CHAPTER FORTY-ONE
  47. CHAPTER FORTY-TWO
  48. CHAPTER FORTY-THREE
  49. CHAPTER FORTY-FOUR
  50. CHAPTER FORTY-FIVE
  51. CHAPTER FORTY-SIX
  52. CHAPTER FORTY-SEVEN
  53. CHAPTER FORTY-EIGHT
  54. CHAPTER FORTY-NINE
  55. CHAPTER FIFTY
  56. CHAPTER FIFTY-ONE
  57. CHAPTER FIFTY-TWO
  58. CHAPTER FIFTY-THREE
  59. CHAPTER FIFTY-FOUR
  60. CHAPTER FIFTY-FIVE
  61. CHAPTER FIFTY-SIX
  62. CHAPTER FIFTY-SEVEN
  63. CHAPTER FIFTY-EIGHT
  64. CHAPTER FIFTY-NINE
  65. CHAPTER SIXTY
  66. CHAPTER SIXTY-ONE
  67. CHAPTER SIXTY-TWO
  68. CHAPTER SIXTY-THREE
  69. CHAPTER SIXTY-FOUR
  70. CHAPTER SIXTY-FIVE
  71. CHAPTER SIXTY-SIX
  72. CHAPTER SIXTY-SEVEN
  73. CHAPTER SIXTY-EIGHT
  74. CHAPTER SIXTY-NINE
  75. CHAPTER SEVENTY
  76. CHAPTER SEVENTY-ONE
  77. CHAPTER SEVENTY-TWO
  78. CHAPTER SEVENTY-THREE
  79. CHAPTER SEVENTY-FOUR
  80. CHAPTER SEVENTY-FIVE
  81. CHAPTER SEVENTY-SIX
  82. CHAPTER SEVENTY-SEVEN
  83. CHAPTER SEVENTY-EIGHT
  84. CHAPTER SEVENTY-NINE
  85. CHAPTER EIGHTY
  86. EPILOGUE
  87. ABOUT THE AUTHOR

I replay what I told the detectives that day and what I’m saying now. I have no reason to change my story—things happened as they happened—but somehow the pleaser in me emerges, and I find myself trying to fill any tiny gaps just to make things smoother. I’ve done that at SkyAero. Carrie asked me to run a report and then soften the figures so that she’d look like she was achieving her target. It wasn’t a big deal to lie for her. In fact, I didn’t even think of it as a lie. I felt I was only making what was supposed to happen occur at a more accelerated rate. I’m all about moving quickly to get the job done.

I can tell by the way Lee looks at me that she’s attracted to me. It might be because of what happened at the end of Tamarack Lane. Or maybe it was before that. She had a crush on me, though she was a kid, and I didn’t really see it at the time. She’s pretty enough. Nice body. I like her red hair. Not fire-engine anymore. Just nice. She’s come into her own. I like what I see, but I want to reel it back inside. Sophie’s dead. She was murdered. I don’t know why I’m thinking of other women.

Montrose pokes his head into the bathroom.

“You done?”

“Yeah,” I say. “Just washing up.”

I wonder if he’d knock on a stall door to roust me.

“Great,” he says. “We’re ready to start back up.”

The detective with the smoker’s breath reminds me of my first boss. He was such a controlling prick. Always checking up on his team members to make sure we were doing what he asked. That pretty much amounted to doing his work along with our own. Detective Montrose is probably pissed off that he’s teamed up with a younger, less experienced partner. A woman too. I bet that really frosts him. When he looks in the mirror in his run-down Shelton house, I bet he knows what every man his age knows.

He’s maxed out on where he’s going.

I go for the door. I’m looking good. I can do this. Despite some huge setbacks, and a reset button that has been inexplicably pushed on my life, I’m the opposite of Montrose and his ilk. I’m only starting over.

CHAPTER THIRTY-TWO

CHAPTER THIRTY-TWO

LEE

With Adam back in the interview room, Montrose and I have silently agreed to a cease-fire. He’s sure about Adam, whom he now considers a class-A liar. I don’t see that at all. I do know, however, that what we are about to discuss will almost certainly change one of our opinions.