“I love her like my own daughter.

I would never harm her.” The detective turned to Kai and asked him, gently, to repeat exactly what he had heard in the kitchen.

My son did not tremble.

“Dario said, ‘A little while after she drinks it, it’ll look like her heart gave out.

Then we wait to call.

We can leave the kid with Mrs.

Vasquez.'”

Dario cut in at once — he didn’t know anyone named Vasquez.