Someone We Know

by Shari Lapena

How are you supposed to teach kids anything these days, with all the bad behavior they see around them, on the news, all the time, from people in positions of authority? No one seems to behave well or have any appreciation for boundaries anymore.

“We made love that night, everything was fine,” he assures them. But it wasn’t like that, he remembers, not at all.

She hasn’t told them that Robert told her that night that he suspected Amanda was having an affair. She’s afraid if the police know, they will think he has a motive. And she hadn’t told Robert, when she was lying in bed with him, that she knew who Amanda might be having an affair with. She won’t tell the detectives what she saw. Not unless it becomes absolutely necessary. Because she knows who Amanda’s lover is. And there’s no way he killed her either.

thinks. We all wear masks. We all have something to hide at one point or another.

But Raleigh also knows something that they don’t. And he’s going to have to tell them.

Maybe he thinks it was Adam. Why do you think Adam drinks so much? He drinks to forget that his dad is such an asshole.”