Gretchen inhaled. It was the argument she had made in those early days, to Shaughnessy, and then later in her own mind. She didn’t think her little eight-year-old self would have had it in her to kill her aunt Rowan, but as the decades slipped by and Shaughnessy continued watching her so closely, she had to wonder. Had the evidence really been strong enough to convince him so thoroughly but weak enough that she hadn’t been arrested?
