CHAPTER NINE
After the near-anxiety attack during his lecture, Reid called it an early day. He texted Maya that he wasn’t feeling well and had headed home; she replied that she would be going to the library after classes were out. He wasn’t far from the campus, so he could pick her up when she was ready. Sara was in an after-school art club, so currently he was alone in the house, upstairs in his office, and sitting on the floor with a box before him.
Alone with his thoughts and a cardboard box, Reid let his mind return to the question that Maya had asked him earlier. “Did Mom know?”
The formerly repressed memory of Kate’s anger and the discovered gun had him doubting his answer. What if she had? he thought. What if Kate had found the gun and the argument in his memory was the catalyst
