The Unbidden Truth (37 page)
“Why her husband now all of a sudden?”
“Not all of a sudden. She's crazy about her sons, and she once said sincerely that she wished Larry would fall into the river and never surface again. She'll try to lay it all on him now that he's gone. She probably has a neat story all prepared. She's protecting her child, Hoggarth. You were going after him. Mother love. Something like that.”
He narrowed his eyes and said, “You're going to cross that line and wander too far from it to get back, and so help me, I want to be there when it happens.” He wheeled about and left.
Frank faced her with a distant, bleak expression, and she said, “Now it's over. Two down, the others will fall.” Her own expression, as bleak as his, was implacable. She started back up the stairs, paused, and looked at Herbert in the doorway. “Now you can call Darren and tell him the coast is clear.”
ISBN: 978-1-4603-0577-5
THE UNBIDDEN TRUTH
Copyright © 2004 by Kate Wilhelm.
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