Chapter Twenty-Two
Wednesday, 3:15 p.m.
Hours later, Tara was still arguing with me via text about my decision. She had gone to work her shift at Clive’s after the funeral, but she had already talked Clive into letting her leave early so she could accompany me to my clandestine meeting with Sherri Dent.
No matter how hard I tried to dissuade her, Tara wouldn’t take no for an answer. I could understand her concern. The whole idea seemed creepy. But Barb had invited me in front of Tara, so the meeting wasn’t entirely secret. If anything happened to me, Barb had to know Tara would go to the police about it.
But what if Barb was in the dark about the whole thing? She said Sherri had asked her to pass on the invitation to me if she could do it without anyone else hearing about it. Barb had
