“Tell me directly. Did Zane lie about what happened at the lake?”
Nora answered without hesitation.
“No. Janice’s death was an accident.”
I closed my eyes.
For years, part of me had wondered whether there was something Zane had never told me about the water. Hearing that the accident itself had not been a lie should have brought relief.
Instead, it revealed a different kind of tragedy.
Jeremy had heard a threat.
He had seen his sister become frightened.
Then, the next day, he had watched her disappear.
