Chapter 6: The Woman in Vermont

I don't answer it. I sit in that library with my heart slamming and I read it eleven times, and then I do the thing that changes everything. I google Rossi, Vermont, hospice. Nothing. Then I try the name off the ring on my finger — the one Damien said was his mother's. I'd seen it inside the band when I took it off to shower. E.R.M. Elena Rossi Marchetti. The obituary loads in half a second. Elena Rossi Marchetti, 44, died Tuesday. Eleven years ago. She's dead. She's been dead for...