22: Ruby’s Other Secret
WHITE REAPPEARED WITH his rucksack over his shoulder ready to go.
Jade was waiting for him with an envelope.
‘There’s one more thing. This arrived this morning,’ she said.
‘What is it?’
‘The autopsy report, I don’t have the heart to open it. Would you do it, please? Tell me if there’s anything ...’
White didn’t let her finish; he took the envelope from her, it was the least he could do to ease her burden.
At any rate, he knew what it would say, he was there for some of it, although he wasn’t there to see Diya cut her up. He knew how she died.
She had been shot. Then, she was tortured. The report would probably state the cause of death as blood loss. He didn’t expect to see anything different from this report.
She could have made it had she made it to a hosp
