Kimber held the magazine open in front of her even as she eyed the dictionary in her periphery. She didn’t want to raise too much suspicion by looking directly at it. The plan was to pretend to peruse a periodical—preferably…

I did just as your mother said. I got a drink, just one, and drove around. I needed to clear my head, cool off. I must have been on the road a couple of hours, aimlessly circling the city, my…