The frame froze on the empty driveway.

“She was the last person on the property,” Rebecca said.

“Derek left in a rideshare at thirteen thirty.

Patricia showed up forty minutes later.”

They hadn’t made a terrible mistake.

There had been no mix-up with Evelyn about the schedule.

Patricia had made up the whole babysitting arrangement from the very beginning.

She drove to my house knowing Derek was already miles away.