Chapter 6

I pressed Send.

For one second, nothing happened.

Then all three of our phones began vibrating.

Daniel reached toward my screen. “Delete it.”

“It’s already sent.”

“Do you really need everyone to see this?”

“You already told them I understood and agreed. I’m correcting the lie.”

Ruth was the first to respond in the family chat.

Daniel, explain this. You told me Hannah knew.

Daniel typed several lines, then erased them.

Finally, he called his mother and put her on speaker.

“She knew Elise was important to me,” he said. “I changed the seating because the anniversary of Peter’s death…