CHAPTER TWENTY ONE
Keri looked at the wall. As she did, something Keith had said a few minutes earlier popped into her head. Looking at the floor plans for the house, he’d described the third-floor bedroom as massive.
But this bedroom, while definitely spacious, was far from massive. In fact, when she’d been out on the balcony, she’d noticed that it seemed to extend far beyond where the wall currently stood.
“Behind the wall?” she mouthed silently to Evie.
Her daughter nodded. Keri desperately wanted to pull the tape off her mouth, to hear her child’s voice. But she worried that focusing on anything other than the immediate threat at hand could put them both at risk, so she fought the urge.
Instead, she turned and looked at the wall, letting her eyes travel along its entire length, in
