“Except Clara is right here. Unharmed,” Emerson said. “Really, this is all nonsense, Noah.”
“Tell us what happened, Clara,” Chief Hatcher said. “Why do you think Cassie was killed?”
“She was visiting me when the call came in. She had wanted to talk to me about…well, in fact, about Noah. He’d come to the medical center suffering a cut on his finger, and as she attended to him he started asking her about the past. Questions about me. She felt uncomfortable and told him so. Then, as she’s telling me of this conversation, my phone rang and my caller asks me to meet him. Said he had vital information about Donna Eldreth’s murder. When I insisted he call the police, he then blackmailed me, said he knew what I’d done. I was to meet him at Stone’s Bay. I was unnerved, shaken, and I guess it was
