Blake? Lily? It’s Special Agent Kellogg.” “Oh, hi. How are you? Sorry—I was asleep.” “That’s okay. I’m sorry to wake you. Well, I’m not entirely sorry to wake you. We’ve found Tasha and Sammy.” Lily sat up in bed. She was so breathless that she could hardly speak. “You’ve found them? Oh, my God! Oh, thank God! Are they all right?” “They’re fine, Mrs. Blake. They’re at Tampa General Hospital, in Florida.” “They’re in the hospital? Why? What’s happened to them?” “Nothing physically wrong, Mrs. Blake, so far as I know. But they’ve had a pretty bad shock, and we just needed to make sure that they were okay.” “What kind of a shock?” “It’s your former husband, I’m afraid. He’s dead.” Lily switched on her bedside lamp. “What happened to him?” she asked, and her voice sounded like somebody else altogether. “Look, we can come round and pick you up in fifteen minutes. We’ll fly you directly down to Tampa and give you all the details on the way.
