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Ben left the hospital, reeling from the news Julie had shared. She’d finally gone back to sleep, right after ordering him to go home and grab a shower. He figured when someone insisted you take a shower, you should do as they asked. Before he got under the hot water, he called his brothers.
“Emergency meeting. My place, stat.”
When he came out, in a clean t-shirt and cotton sweats, his brothers were sprawled around the living room. Even Aiden was there, having just flown home after midterms.
“We have a problem.” Ben got right to the point. “I think Mom knows more than she let on back then. I think she has a suspicion about the killer, and that’s why she left, and that’s why she’s been such a rolling stone.”
He filled them in on what Julie had remembered.
“Are you sure it’s not the
