Secrets She Knew by D.L. Wood

Author:D.L. Wood [Wood, D.L.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Silverglass Press
Published: 2020-03-12T06:00:00+00:00

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Dani spent the night scouring the documents to no avail. She finally went to bed at three in the morning, frustrated, her sleep plagued by the crushing weight of the realizations she’d had the night before. After a rough two hours of sleep, she finally gave up, rolled out of bed and flipped open her laptop. If her discovery of this diary was going to cause more pain, it wasn’t going to be for nothing.

She drafted a quick email to Larry Holmes, Dr. Beecher’s attorney, even though part of her felt she was betraying Dr. Beecher by bypassing him. But what if he decided this wasn’t worth pursuing? She couldn’t let that happen.

Dani did her best to explain the situation to Mr. Holmes, outlining what she had read in the diary and the potential opportunities she believed those revelations presented. She indicated she would be happy to provide him a copy of the diary for his review. There was obviously no way she could mention the case file or offer it to Mr. Holmes without betraying the Chief’s trust. But Dani was fairly certain that between the trial, discovery and just general talk, Mr. Holmes was probably already familiar with the information it contained. After reading the email several times, she clicked “Send,” slapped the laptop shut and shuffled off to the kitchen to make breakfast. As it was a Saturday, she didn’t expect to hear back from him until Monday at the latest, but her heart was a bit lighter for having reached out.

As she whipped up pancakes from the meager groceries she had purchased, she made a plan for the day. The reunion wasn’t until six thirty. Until then, she would sort as much of the house as she could. Today she would be moving on to the bedrooms that used to be hers and Nikki’s, and if she had time after that, the dining room, bathrooms and linen closet. If she made it through those, it would be a very productive day.

It wasn’t lost on her that she was saving the most difficult rooms for last. Her father’s office and her parents’ bedroom. Difficult, not only in terms of the most belongings in a single space, but also because they were the most personal areas of the house. The most sentimental. The most emotionally racking. Even though she and Nikki weren’t close, it would have been nice to have her sister there for that part of the process. Someone to lean on. Someone who understood the loss, because they too had lived it.

But Nikki wasn’t there, and although Sasha and Peter had both offered to come help today, she had refused them. Sasha had enough to deal with, being in charge of the reunion, and Peter—well, she didn’t really have a good excuse for not letting him help, except that, if her sister couldn’t be there, she would just rather do it alone. When the time came to move boxes around, she would take all the help she could get.

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