Maybe those tears had been guilt.

Chapter 6 — Don’t Go Digging

I looked up at Lonnie.

He was watching me, careful, still.

And then he said the thing that turned my suspicion to certainty.

“Don’t go digging up old things, Susanna.” I stared at him.

That is not a sentence a person says unless something is buried.

“You know something.” He looked away and wouldn’t meet my eyes.