‘You go looking for evidence now, Maggie, and you’ll rip her wide open again. This way – well, this is the end, and then it’s over.’ I could feel my throat closing, a fist of tears. ‘And what if one day June finds out the truth? And realizes that you were executed, even though you were innocent?’ ‘Then,’ Shay said, a smile breaking over him like daylight, ‘she’ll remember me.’
