Nobody moved. Nobody breathed.
Olivia stood on the other side of the chain-link fence, rain mist clinging to her hair, her arms wrapped around herself now instead of folded in that cool, practiced composure she'd worn like armor at every public appearance I'd ever watched her make.
"Say it," Adrian said. His voice had gone dangerously quiet. "Say it clearly, Olivia. Don't make me guess."
Olivia's chin lifted, though her eyes had gone glassy and unfocused, fixed on some point far behind all of us. "I was driving the other car."
The words landed in the empty lot like a gunshot.
"I'd had four drinks at the sponsor dinner that night," she continued, her voice flattening into something clinical, rehearsed, like she'd said the words silently to herself a thousand times over nine years and h
