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“So you have quite an extensive medical history for someone so young.” Dr. Strasser settled into a stool in front of the computer.
I touched the heavy purse at my feet. “I’ve brought all of his paperwork. It goes back almost seven years.”
Strasser looked surprised. “You two are old enough to be married seven years?”
“We’ve been married for fourteen years, actually,” I admitted. “Straight out of college.”
Martin sent me an annoyed look, as if he didn’t see the point to disclosing personal details.
Strasser glanced at the papers in my hands. “I received some of your history, but certainly not seven years’ worth.” He held out his hands and gestured for the files. “May I?”
“Oh.” I pushed the purse forward. “So these are doctors’ notes, scans, dates of surgeries, and then I kept this separate log of medications Martin was taking and when they stopped working, or the side effects he got from them, that sort of thing. It includes blood pressure information as well.”
“My.Verythorough. Good job with this.”
God, how he’d looked at me, even then.Where haveyoubeen hiding, you divine thing,his eyes seemed to say. Where had that love gone? And when did it go?
“Did Greg have any other enemies?” Willa asks, jolting me from my thoughts.
My mind feels sluggish. “He was really well liked. Truly, the only enemy of his that I can think of is...” I trail off. Wave my hand.
Willa frowns. “Who?”
“Forget it. Never mind.” But I was about to say, again,Me.
Has my sister read my mind? Given the guarded way she’s looking at me, I think yes. I laugh offhandedly. “I am on the cops’ suspect list. I certainly had motive. And I was the one who found him.”
“But you didn’t do it.” Willa sounds resolute. Thankfully.
“They’re just covering all the bases. They have surveillance of me leaving the parking lot at a certain time of the evening, and if I drove really quickly—like ninety miles an hour—burst into the house, and stabbed Gregimmediately,the timeline could fit.”
“But you said you passed out on the bathroom floor.”
“I know. I did. Except no onesawme do that. Then again, there are no witnesses saying I came home at a different time than when I did, either. And like I said, that surveillance image in the parking lot doesn’t give me much time to get back here and stab Greg.”
Willa sits back, her hands curled around her knees. “What about your girls?”
I pause. “Whataboutmy girls?”
“Where were they the night it happened?”
“I thought Aurora was home, but it turns out she was at a friend’s house two doors down.” I turn my head from side to side, feeling my neck crack. “Lilly. They usually sleep in the guesthouse in the backyard. The police already talked to both of them. Neither heard a thing.”
“And what about Sienna?”
I look at my coffee. The creamer is a congealed layer on top. “She was on campus. At a party.”
“They seem really out of it today.”
“Do you blame them? It’s a shock.”
“They seem more than shocked, actually.”
I frown. “What do you mean?”
Creak.
A figure has stepped into the hall: a beautiful twentysomething girl with bouncy red hair, wearing a dark blue leather jacket. It’sRaina Hammond, Sienna’s friend from school. I jump to my feet. What the hell isshedoing here?
