CHAPTER 31
“What do you mean, you didn’t talk to Mace?” Ruby had just finished lunch and was taking a quick break upstairs while Grandma Lucy napped in her prayer chair.
“I mean exactly what I said.” The kids in Jessi’s daycare were supposed to be napping too, so she was keeping her voice down. “I didn’t tell him anything.”
“Then how did he know about Elliot?”
“Who?”
“The doctor,” Ruby hissed. “The one from Seattle.”
Jessi was quiet. “Oh.”
“Oh?” Her best friend had potentially ruined her life and all she could say was Oh?
“Yeah, I think I maybe mentioned it to him. But only because it was so weird that you hadn’t seen him in all these years and then he popped up where you work. I mean, don’t you think that’s a strange coincidence?”
“Whatever I think it is, you promised me you were
