PART 2 OF 10
The Door She Closed
Mavenlus DeskFICTION
Fourteen years earlier, Michael Doyle had stood in his mother's study at midnight, still wearing the jacket he had been arrested in.
He was twenty.
His hands would not stop moving.
"I didn't know it was in the car, Mom.
I swear.
I gave Danny a ride home.
That's all I did."
Margaret sat very straight behind her desk.
"Then the truth will come out."