Chapter 118: Falling Back on Fears

"It seems that you didn't process when the officers told you that you were being brought in to be interrogated. Did they tell you why you were being interrogated?" he asked. 

"Yes, they said it was child abuse," she was panicking. 

"And?" Sebastian asked. 

"A multiple murder case?" she didn't sound so sure anymore. 

"Yes, people have been murdered in your neighborhood. Two boys around the age of five have been killed." Sebastian only laid out the facts. 

"And you think I killed them?" she yelled. 

"No." He said with finality. "Carol did. She confessed," Sebastian said. Grace sank into the chair, a mixture of relief and confusion on her face.

"Are you glad that you aren't being accused of murder?" I asked, my voice so calm that it must have been frightening. Grace looked up, jolted. 

"What?" she said.