Chapter 12
We scrambled to our feet and raced down the stairs. Coco and Larson were still standing together over Ivy's covered body, but they both looked up in alarm as we ran down the last few steps to the parquet floor of the hall.
"How did you get up there?" Larson asked, looking up the way we'd come then back over his shoulder at Ricci still standing in the doorway. Ricci shrugged, but after the officer turned back again his face darkened and I could see he was figuring it out.
"Where's Charlotte?" I asked Coco.
"I don't know," Coco said. "I thought she was…" she looked back at Ricci standing alone at the door.
"She just came downstairs. We were following her," I said.
"She didn't come down here," Coco said.
"Second floor," Sophie whispered, and we all three turned to go back up
