Just the Nicest Couple

by Mary Kubica

Lily shakes her head, her words coming out in unsteady bursts. “The teachers. At school. It’s all anyone is talking about.”

calling it now — Lily is an unreliable narrator. there’s a reason we don’t get chapters from her POV. she’s hiding something, an affair maybe, perhaps the baby is Jake’s. not hers. and she killed him for some reason but felt the need to keep him quiet, maybe he threatened to tell their spouses.

Dr. Hayes was found dead yesterday morning with a gunshot wound to the head...”

whelp there’s his missing gun

But five times. Five times is what she said when I asked her, which is exactly five times too many. Five times is voluntary and deliberate and, for two married people having an extramarital affair, planned out in advance.

called it

But I swear on my life, Christian, on our baby’s life, I didn’t shoot him,”

did he end his own misery? or does nina know more than she’s letting on?

“but someone else did.”

maybe even ryan

My mother is the only one who loves me. She’s the only person I have left.

and i’ll bet she shot jake

She shrugs. “I have good days and bad days,” she tries telling me. But macular degeneration, from what I know, is degenerative and incurable.

aaand that’s why she didn’t want nina to go into the appointments with her