We Are All the Same in the Dark by Julia Heaberlin

Author:Julia Heaberlin [Heaberlin, Julia]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 9781405940801
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Published: 2020-08-05T18:30:00+00:00

33

“I got a DNA hit off the girl’s water bottle.”

Dr. Camila Perez, all business, doesn’t bother with hello when she picks up on the first ring. “The sample you gave me was pristine. It popped in the database as a match to a man named Christopher Coco. I can tell you with an extremely high degree of certainty the DNA you provided belongs to his daughter.”

My brain, processing. Camila found Angel’s father.

“He’s not a good guy, Odette,” she continues grimly. “Convicted of involuntary manslaughter. He was sent to Big Mac.”

“Big Mac,” I repeat.

“The Oklahoma pen. Where they cage the worst of the worst. But that was a few years back. He was released three weeks ago. I’m sorry to call so early, but that’s why I didn’t wait. I thought it was too much of a coincidence—that you handed me the DNA of a killer’s daughter right as he’s getting out of prison.”

Twenty steps away, Maggie’s front door is pulsing.

The colors in the sweet picture I painted behind that door, running red. The hammers on the rooftops, clicking like manic heels.

“Odette, did you hear what I said? There’s a lot of background noise. Like you’re in a hailstorm.”

“I heard you,” I breathe out. “I really appreciate your call. I have to go.”

Angel’s father, a killer.

I’m scraping my mind for when Maggie last texted me.

Feeling for my gun.

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