Chapter 118

‘Bethany was alive all this time?' Doctor Lang asked in bewilderment.

‘She was.'

‘But you saw Israel slit her throat.'

‘I did.'

‘They staged the whole thing then?'

‘They didn't,' Poe said. ‘Those rocks were real. That Stanley knife was real. The blood gushing from Bethany's throat was real.'

‘Then why—?'

‘Why wasn't she dead? Why wasn't she in a grave on the side of a sunny hill like Israel claimed?'

Doctor Lang nodded. She looked bewildered.

‘Because the case still had one more arrow in its quiver,' Poe said. ‘And in the end, it all came down to why Noah and Grace had hated their daughter . . .'