Chapter 50
Jay
He was her brother. The guy she’d hugged on the street that day, who she’d been covering for all this time, was her brother. I went around the couch to look at Maggie, whose face had gone pale.
Alfonso was playing with his knife. Maggie’s eyes kept darting to it, then away. “Simon’s going to question her when he gets here. Wants to know where ‘Fred’ went.”
Maggie stared straight ahead, her lips pressed together. It was no wonder she had never said anything to me, never given up his whereabouts. He was family. I thought back to how surprised she’d been when I’d accused her of screwing over Simon in the gym that day. Maybe she really hadn’t known. Maybe it hadn’t been her idea in the first place, but once she found out, once I’d told her what he’d done, she couldn’t say an
