Chapter 15 — Zachary in the Doorway

“Honey, what on earth did you find?” Zachary said, appearing in the doorway, and then he stopped dead, his sentence dying in his mouth, as he took in the scene.

I tried to see it through his eyes and understood at once why he went so still.

His wife, sitting pale and wild-eyed on a bare mattress.

An enormous suitcase yawning open on the floor.

Dozens of clear bags of coded white powder spread across the rug.