CHAPTER SEVENTEEN
Surrounded by snow and twinkling with Christmas lights, the Anchorage mall reminded Sadie of a Christmas movie she had watched with Jessica one year. She couldn’t remember the plot, other than that it had featured a mean Santa Claus impersonator at a mall and a shy elf. Jessica had found it hilarious.
The memory made her sad and she shook it off, telling herself to concentrate on the matter at hand. When this was all over, then she could take the time to get to the bottom of whatever it was that her father knew about her sister’s death.
She had been waiting years; she could wait a little longer.
The Urban Outfitters was one of the biggest stores inside the mall, with large posters announcing the upcoming January sale. As they walked past the various stores, busy shopp
