She didn’t want to relive it all again, not after spending the entire journey telling Lisa. But really, she had no choice. It was such a cliché, but the only way out was through, and if she chickened out again, she deserved her fate. She’d already been stupidly wrong about Monica and Eve, and she ought to be happy she was wrong, but she couldn’t be until she’d told Eve the truth, finally. Lisa was obviously relishing her role as the next star of Law & Order with Eve and Tan as her witnesses. “Monica never gave either of you any reason to think there might be another story?” To Eve she added, “You, the woman Ani was in love with, you who were suffering in this horrible vacuum of silence and didn’t know what to think?” Eve shook her head. “No, I asked for details and you’re right, I didn’t get anything that wasn’t common knowledge. Like Tan said, it was always ‘Ani took them, now they’re destroyed’ and that was the end of the story.”
