Lie in Plain Sight
“Maeve was at the kitchen table sitting across from Heather later that night, her rage simmering below the surface but apparent to the girl, whose eyes didn’t leave her folded hands. It wasn’t the first time she would say those words to her daughter, nor would it be the last. She was ready, finally, to hear the details of the girl’s conversation with Taylor on the day she had gone missing and find out why, if Rebecca was to be believed, she continued to have such terrible taste in men.
Heather w...asn’t her usual sullen self, but she wasn’t hostile either. What she was seemed far more concerning to Maeve. She seemed dead inside, without life, a shell of a girl who had lost the ability to feel. She stared across at her mother, words failing her.
Maeve led her along in the story. “You saw Taylor.”
“Yes.”
“And what did she say?”
Heather traced a circle on top of the old wood table, a knife mark left by one of the girls when they were small and didn’t know the lasting damage that one minor act could do.MoreLess
Heather w...asn’t her usual sullen self, but she wasn’t hostile either. What she was seemed far more concerning to Maeve. She seemed dead inside, without life, a shell of a girl who had lost the ability to feel. She stared across at her mother, words failing her.
Maeve led her along in the story. “You saw Taylor.”
“Yes.”
“And what did she say?”
Heather traced a circle on top of the old wood table, a knife mark left by one of the girls when they were small and didn’t know the lasting damage that one minor act could do.MoreLess
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