PART 17

One night I met Detective Mercer at her office to review the timeline.

She showed me a request for records, not the entire case file, and asked about the times I had called home.

The photographs and texts I’d saved helped establish a pattern.

At one point I’d called eleven times in less than three hours.

My mother had answered once and sent three messages claiming Jenna was asleep.

The detective asked what I’d believed then.