Haunting-Adeline

the hell out. There was a comment in the police report that they
threatened to sedate him.
What I really want to know is what his father knew about the case.
Maybe he knew something that wasn’t in any of the files.
He shrugs a shoulder. “From what I remember, he thinks that she was
sneaking around on John—seeing some man. My father couldn’t seem to
find out who it was, though, so it wasn’t something they looked into. But
my father was almost certain that was the reason John snapped and killed
Gigi.”
I twist my lips, glancing at Zade to find him already staring at me with an
unreadable expression.
He’s skimmed through her diaries and knows she had a stalker. But it
doesn’t seem that Mark or his father knew that, which doesn’t surprise me
in the slightest. Gigi’s diaries were in a safe behind a picture. The police
would have had no reason to believe she would be hiding something like
that.
I contemplate if I should divulge what I know. Maybe Mark would have
some type of power to look into the diaries and see what he can find. But
the second that thought enters, I boot it right back out.
Mark isn’t a nice guy. And he would only lord those books over my head
and lead me on. I’m posi ve I would never see them again if I handed them
over.
Besides, I’m confident Daya has many more ways to get informa on than
Mark ever could. Mark’s father is presumably dead with the way he speaks
about him in the past tense, and I’m sure the officers from the case are
also dead, or close to it.
Gigi died in the ‘40s, making this case seventy-five years old.
“Why did Frank believe it was John and not the other man then?”
Mark se les back, his glazed eyes look off into the distance. "Sera was
older than me at the me, by six years. She was a teenager, and I was s ll a
ten-year-old kid who wanted to play. Of course, Sera was an angel and
humored me. So, for months leading up to Gigi's death, I would ask to go
over to Parsons Manor and see Sera. And every me, my father would say
no. He said John developed a bit of a drinking problem and it was no
longer safe for children over there. I whined and cried ‘cause I only wanted
to see my friend. And then Gigi was killed, and I s ll didn't get it.