“The woman who visits your daughter every Thursday always brings yellow daisies,” he said. “She says Maya liked them.”
My stomach tightened.
“What woman?”
“The blonde woman. Dark SUV. Comes early in the morning.”
“No one else visits Maya.”
Otis hesitated.
“Yes, ma’am. She does.”
“What does she say?”
His face grew serious.
“She apologizes.”
My blood
ran cold.
“Why would a stranger apologize to my daughter?”
Otis lowered his voice.
“Because I don’t think you know the whole truth about what happened.”
And suddenly, everything I believed about Maya’s death began to crack.
PART 2
The following Thursday, I waited near the cemetery entrance.
At 8:06 a.m., a dark SUV pulled through the gates.
A blonde woman
