The truth is usually just a latch that would not close.”

Chapter 22 — I Have to Check

There was only one way I was going to believe any of this, and we all knew what it was.

“Jacqueline,” I said, more gently now, because her obvious mortification was starting to cut through my panic.

“I need to open one of these.

I am sorry.

I truly am.

But I have been standing here terrified for an hour, and I have to see it with my own eyes.