“Melissa owed money.”
“To who?”
“People.”
“What people?”
“Before you and I got married, she got involved with a man who used her to move prescription pills. She testified against him. He had people looking for her.”
My heartbeat slowed.
That old sensation returned.
Information arranging itself into patterns.
“Witness protection?”
“No. She refused it.”
“Then what?”
“My father helped her disappear.”
The funeral.
Closed casket.
Quick burial.
Claire’s parents refusing an autopsy because the “injuries were too severe.”
