Chapter 249

How could Clara claim she had never suspected? When her parents died, she had been far too young—barely five years old. At that age, she believed whatever the adults told her.

But as she grew older, the same questions returned again and again.

Anti-narcotics officers. Returning home from a mission. Killed in an "accident" along the way. Strung together, those words never sounded right.

Yet the men