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like she’d had when he found Paige in the cemetery. “How’d your son react to the news that his cousins had died? They look like they’d be about the same age,” Kalina said.
    “He was upset of course. We all were. It was such a shock.”
    “But Paige didn’t die. She was taken into foster care and adopted. She ran a successful beauty shop until someone killed her,” Chris said.
    “I don’t know what I can tell you. Until you showed up at my door, I had no idea she was even alive.”
    “This may seem like a strange question but do you know how your sister and brother-in-law died?”
    “I think it was a faulty carbon monoxide detector in the house. That’s what the police said when they came to notify me.”
    “When was that?”
    “I don’t remember. A year ago maybe.”
    “Did Logan get along with Paige?” Chris asked.
    “Yes. Why are you asking about Logan? I thought this was about Paige.”
    “Ma’am, is it possible that your nephew could have survived too?”
    “I don’t know. I think I want you to leave. I’m sorry I can’t be more help.”
    Kalina opened her mouth to press the issue but Chris shook his head and offered his hand to help her up. They started for the front of the house when Kalina stopped. “Could I use your bathroom?”
    “Last door on the left down that hallway.”
    Kalina took off down the hall at a brisk waddle. She really did need to use the bathroom but she figured she could also use the time to look around. The hallway was lined with more photos of Logan as a teenager. There was even one of him graduating from college. Oddly, there were no photos of him younger than eleven or twelve. The suspicious part of her mind tried to convince her that Logan was actually Patrick but it couldn’t rationalize why Bethany would have kept his survival a secret. Surely she would have returned him to his parents. She passed a room on the right with a partially closed door. She nudged it open with her foot and took in the room of a guy in his late twenties. The walls were bare except for a single photo of Logan and Bethany. There was a laptop sitting open on the desk. When she hit the Enter key to wake the machine up, it prompted her for a password.
    “Damn.”
    The desk had a center drawer that she eased open to find a print-out from a dating website. The figure in the profile picture was unmistakably Verona Maxwell. The baby chose that moment to press more insistently on her bladder and she had to retreat across the hall to the bathroom. She returned to the living room to find Chris, keys already in hand, and Bethany with her hat back on her head.
    They left through the front door and said nothing until they were back in the car. Kalina watched as Bethany strode up the street at a brisk pace.
    “Well that was a bust,” Chris muttered.
    “Not entirely. I looked around a little bit while I was heading to the bathroom. There aren’t any pictures of Logan before the age of ten. And it looks like Bethany lied to us about Logan moving out. There’s a room that looks lived in. I saw a computer but it was locked. There’s definitely something off about all of this.”
    “You think Logan is Patrick.”
    “I got that same feeling looking at pictures of him that I did with Paige. And she was definitely avoiding talking about Logan as a young child. There has to be a reason.”
    “It’s looking more like we have a suspect. We just have to find him.”
    “I know it’s not definitive but what if you used aging software on a picture of Patrick at ten and see if it looks like Logan now. And compare it to the surveillance photo.”
    Chris leaned over and kissed her cheek. “I knew I married you for a reason.”
    “There’s something else. I found a print-out of a profile for Verona on a dating website in the top desk drawer. Even if Logan isn’t Patrick, he still found Verona and it’s worth talking to him.”
    Chris put the car into drive and did a quick U-turn so they could head out