“I’m sorry you had to cut your trip short,” Mother said when Ruth paused in her story to allow a nurse to check on the equipment Mom was attached to.
“I was coming home anyway, Mom.” Ruth jerked her head in my direction. “Someone needs to keep Hannah on the straight and narrow.”
If only she knew, I thought.
Paul spoke for the first time. “Hannah, have you told them?”
I gawped at him, like a stranded fish. How could it be that the events of the past four hours had flown so completely out of my head? Bali! What the hell did Bali have to do with anything? I had important news, and I’d nearly risked letting my mother go without telling her.
“Mom.” I approached her bed. “Dad.” I touched his hand where it rested on the covers. “They’ve arrested someone for the murder of Georgina’s therapist
