Chapters (68)
- Dedication
- Title Page
- Contents
- One
- Two
- Three
- Four
- Five
- Six
- Seven
- Eight
- Nine
- Ten
- Eleven
- Thirteen
- Fourteen
- Fifteen
- Sixteen
- Seventeen
- Eighteen
- Nineteen
- Twenty
- Twenty-One
- Twenty-Two
- Twenty-Three
- Twenty-Four
- Twenty-Five
- Twenty-Six
- Twenty-Seven
- Twenty-Eight
- Twenty-Nine
- Thirty
- Thirty-One
- Thirty-Two
- Thirty-Three
- Thirty-Four
- Thirty-Five
- Thirty-Six
- Thirty-Seven
- Thirty-Eight
- Thirty-Nine
- Forty
- Forty-One
- Forty-Two
- Forty-Three
- Forty-Four
- Forty-Five
- Forty-Six
- Forty-Seven
- Forty-Eight
- Forty-Nine
- Fifty
- Fifty-One
- Fifty-Two
- Fifty-Three
- Fifty-Four
- Fifty-Five
- Fifty-Six
- Fifty-Seven
- Fifty-Eight
- Fifty-Nine
- Sixty
- Sixty-One
- Sixty-Two
- Sixty-Three
- Sixty-Four
- Sixty-Five
- Copyright
“Okay, so we’re coming out of Knight’s, and it’s kind of dark, and we’re heading for my car—I’d picked her up at her place that night—and she goes, ‘Hey, how you doin’?’ to someone.”
“She saw someone she knew?”
“Yeah. This woman, standing by the alley that goes down the side of Knight’s. You know where I mean?”
“I do.”
“So Carol goes up to her, but I kind of hang back, because it’s not anybody I know, and I feel kind of funny when she introduces me to a friend, because she’s got a good job, and I’m still trying to find something, and I don’t want to have to do a whole bunch of explaining.”
“Sure.”
“So she talks to this girl for about thirty seconds, then says goodbye, and then me and her go to my car and that’s kind of it.”
“Who was she?”
Trevor shrugged. “I asked her, and she said just someone she knew, no big deal, and she actually seemed a bit pissed because this friend didn’t seem to want to talk to her anyway. Kind of gave her the bum’s rush.”
“That’s it? That’s the part you left out?”
“Okay, so, when you found me at Starbucks and started asking us about being at Knight’s, that really, honestly pissed me off, you know.”
“I got that,” Duckworth said.
“I mean, I was thinking of introducing her to you guys, but before I get a chance to do that, suddenly there you are interviewing us like we’re a couple of suspects or something. But then after you left, we were talking, and that’s when she mentioned that she had spoken to this friend of hers. She said that even if we didn’t see anything suspicious, maybe her friend had. She wondered if she should tell you, and then she thought maybe it would be better to get in touch with the friend, and if she did see anything, she could get in touch with you herself.”
“Okay.”
“Carol felt bad that the very first time she meets my dad, she’s not straight with him. She thought that if that other woman knew anything and could help you, that’d be a nice way to make it up to you. Not that you’d ever have known in the first place.”
Maureen said, slowly, “That’s what you were talking about.”
Trevor looked at her. “What?”
“On the phone, last night. I was going past your room and I heard you say something like you didn’t think it was a good idea.”
“You were listening to me?”
“It was just something I heard when I was walking by,” she said.