Chapter Twenty-Three
Maggie stared out the passenger window at the miles of heavy forest.
“Penny for your thoughts?” Richard brushed her arm lightly with his hand as he drove home after picking her up from a coffee shop in town, where she and Jean had stopped after meeting Angie, mostly to decompress.
“Do you know Angie Mueller, one of the special needs kids’ moms at school? She lives on Dan’s property.”
Richard took his eyes off the road for a second and squinted at Maggie. “Small world. I met her after she moved into Dan’s house. Didn’t put two and two together. She’s the same Angie you’ve talked about? She did a lot of work to his big old house on the property, landscaping. It was amazing what she accomplished as a single mom.”
“Did you know Dan was sleeping with her and playing da
