Freemantle’s gaze drilled into her. “Has your mother ever been arrested?”
“I don’t know,” she said again.
Rumor and half-truths weren’t the whole truth.
Freemantle’s tone remained unruffled. “During the period when you lived with your mother in Pendleton, was she ever arrested?”
She remembered Patty-Jean complaining she’d gotten points on her driver’s license. But again, she’d never seen a citation or a cop hauling her mom downtown.
“I don’t know.”
Freemantle gave her a measuring look. “Would it surprise you to hear that Patty-Jean Thomas is currently serving a sentence in a King County detention facility?”
What, Patty-Jean had cooperated with the Beast’s minions and received no probation as reward?
“That does surprise me,” she admitted.
Freemantle moved on. “Was your father Benja
