“Do you believe what Travis said about your mother and giving the drug to her clients?” “Yeah, I guess I do.” Kim still sounded sad. “But it’s a good thing Ed never knew, or he’d have been mad enough to kill her himself. Someone gave his daughter that date-rape drug once. What happened while she was knocked out with it left her so disturbed and depressed that she killed herself a couple years later. It was all before I knew him, of course, but he was still really bitter about it. He said anyone who gave a woman that drug ought to be—” Kim shook her head. “Well, Ed could get pretty graphic about that.” Jo-Jo had mentioned the daughter’s suicide but not this detail. “Are you going to get the money for him?” Cate asked. “I suppose I could hock something. I have some jewelry Ed gave me. And there’s lots of stuff around here that’s probably hockable.” Kim gazed around the room as if sizing up the dollar value of lamps and furniture and knickknacks.
