“Rylan held it open for her. “What time did Rumm get home that day?”“Early. Around three o’clock.”He checked his watch. “Close enough. What did the two of you do?”“We watched old films. Or rather he did.”“Film clips of him?”“Yes. Videos taped off ‘Wide World of Sports’ and such.”“Why do you say, ‘Or rather he did’?”“Because I was in and out of the study. I was cooking dinner that night.”“Why?”Kirsten seemed reluctant to answer, but he held his stare until she did. “Alice wasn’t here. She had tak...en those two days off.”Alice’s toneless, tuneless humming had never seemed so loud as it did then, coming from the direction of the kitchen. “Go tell her she has the next two days off,” Rylan said.“I can’t just walk in there and—”“Then I’ll do it for you.” He headed for the kitchen. Kirsten lunged after him and caught a fistful of his shirt. “I will tell her.”Through the walls, Rylan overheard Alice’s exclamation of surprise, then her series of feeble protests, before she finally capitulated by telling Kirsten that she’d been hoping for a free day to go see her daughter and grandchild.“What did you cook that night?”MoreLessRead More Read Less
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