Chapter Fourteen
I felt stunned. I looked at Rime, but Rime wasn’t looking at me or anyone else. His eyes were on the floor and he looked like he wanted to run away, but he didn’t move, probably because he had nowhere to run to.
“Is … is that true?” I said, looking at Triplet again. “Did he really kill Tara’s dad?”
Triplet nodded. “Yes. That was eleven years ago, when Tara was a little girl. It’s a sad story.”
“But Tara never mentioned the murder of her dad to me,” I said.
“Probably because it devastated her,” said Triplet. “And her mother, too. Remember how I told you that Tara’s mother hired me to solve a crime? Well, that is the crime she wanted me to solve.”
I looked at Rime again. Rime hadn’t said a word, but his entire demeanor was all the evidence I needed to confirm Triplet’s
