While I was on vacation with my cousins, my phone lit up with one message: “Get on a plane home. Don’t tell your parents you’re coming.” When I landed, an attorney and two investigators

apartment because I could not bear to return to my own place in Seattle, where every framed photograph had become evidence of someone else’s crime.

Aunt Rebecca came to see me there.

She looked older than I remembered, her face pale with guilt.

“I should have known sooner,” she said.

I sat across from her at the small kitchen table. “Did you suspect?”

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