Holding the blue quilt.
Taken three weeks earlier.
The day Rachel fell.
Daniel opened the image.
Then he saw something in the background.
Something Margaret had missed.
A small object on the kitchen counter.
A recording device.
His heart stopped.
Because suddenly he understood.
Rachel had not been the only one hiding something.
And his mother had no idea that her own words from that night had been recorded.
TO BE CONTINUED…