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“Why are you here?” Mrs. Elliot glared daggers at me when I walked into the waiting room. Janet had gone off after the interrogation, saying she had a lot of work to do. I was grateful that she   had cut short her work to come and help me. “Did you come to see if you had finished him off?”

I sighed and took a look around the room. Carla was sitting with a woman I recognized as Noah’s sister Loraine. I had only seen her in photos but she didn’t look very different in real life. She looked very much like Noah, an older r