By then I had been working on him and the rest of the Rodhams for four years. Over time they did, as Mother came to care less about Hillary’s appearance and Hillary came to care more about it. Keyes grabbed him out of the hallway to sit with the woman during the verdict. And, occasionally, he'd read one of the many stories the Times ran in the Metro section about what was becoming known nationwide as the Follower case.
One day I was mowing grass down there and discovered it had become a nesting place not for martins but for bumblebees. Knowing this woman was dead, had died violently, and standing there watching her submit to another kind of violence affected him in a way he was unsure he even understood. Bosch had the rover on low on the seat next to him. On December 23, I flew home.
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