CHAPTER 11Since the press had seen fit to link her name with Christy’s as mother and daughter, Lou O’Donnell was, much against her better judgement, forced to confess to ex-policeman Tom Reynolds the truth of who exactly her daughter was. She could no longer go on deceiving him into believing her name to be Donnelly instead of O’Donnell. Tom Reynolds merely smiled in wistful sort of fashion, told her he had known the truth all along, said that he wouldn’t have risen to the ranks of Chief Super’ if he hadn’t been a good enough detective. He had long been waiting for her to broach the subject of her son and daughter’s involvement in the armed raid, sensing that she would, all in good time.
“Look, Lou, there’s no reason to blame yourself over this,” he reassured her. “If your son and daughte
