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MEGAN WOKE UP THE NEXT morning, amazed that she had gotten any sleep at all. She had gone to bed expecting to be up all-night tossing and turning, but instead had fallen asleep as soon as her head hit the pillow. Turning her head towards the nightstand she saw it was 7:15 am. Knowing that the police would have been at Carol’s home at daybreak, she quickly got out of bed. After grabbing the extra clothes that Lucy had brought over for her, she headed into the bath to get herself ready to face the day. Figuring that she was going to be running from Carol’s to her office/home on and off all day, Megan did the easiest thing possible with her hair, pulled it up into a ponytail and secured it with a barrette that she found in the drawer under the sink. Leaving the bathroom, she threw h
