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Kira remained silent on the drive home. She cradled Clarissa’s diary in her lap. She could only imagine what Clarissa’s mother must be going through. To have her only child go missing, and then return, only to commit suicide would be enough to destroy most parents, and seemed to have ruined her marriage. Mrs. Hunt’s guilt, the way she clung to Clarissa’s memory... And now everything she had thought to be true had been turned on its head.
Would the discovery that Clarissa had been murdered by the Procurer affect her relationship with her husband? Kira hoped so.
No one should have to go through all this alone.
Trevor seemed to sense Kira’s need for introspection and remained mute. His car wound through the residential streets until they arrived back at his usual parking spot against th
