Tessa — The Christmas Gift Secret
Lauren checked the camera and announced that the visitor was only the food delivery driver.
Tessa watched my face until I smiled.
The hardest part of keeping her safe, I was learning, wasn’t moving her to another house.
It was helping her believe the world wasn’t always about to surprise her in the worst possible way.
PART 10
On the twenty-ninth, Detective Ruiz called.
She asked Brian and me to come to the station without Tessa.
“We have preliminary laboratory findings,” she said.
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