Page 111 of Lemon Pound Cake Club

I picked it up and turned it over in my hand.

"What’s on this?"

"The one thing everyone thought was gone."

My eyes met hers.

"Why now?"

"Because it's time."

I glanced down at the hard drive again.

"You could've turned this over years ago."

"I could have."

"You could've stopped all of this before it started."

"I could have."

This old lady was something else. I watched her face closely.

"Then why didn't you?"

Miss Evelyn's expression softened.

"Because I made a promise to her if anything was to happen. She knew enough to be afraid."

I held the hard drive a little tighter.

"You smiled in Camille's face all these years."

"I sure did." Miss Evelyn exhaled slowly. She had been waiting for someone to come searching for the truth.

I held her gaze.

"You knew I'd come."

She nodded slowly.

"I hoped."

A gentle smile crossed her face.

"I just didn't think you'd come the way you did."

Honestly, I hadn’t expected it either. She nodded at the hard drive.

"When you're ready, you'll know exactly what to do with it."

I put it in my pocket. Tomorrow was almost here. Soon, everything would start to make sense.

Chapter Nineteen

Maci

The detective looked up as soon as I walked into his office.