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“When I visited her at the hospital today She’s got no family left now”

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Helen looked angry and shook her head “They never treated Jocelyn like a niece, not the way they treated Bobby, though heaven knows they didn’t treat him all that well Did you know that they were supposed to take Bobby when Muriel’s sister, his mother, died, but they didn’t want hi sister and she didn’t want children She’d have let the state have Bobby and him just a baby”

“I didn’t think you’d worked for the Marchand fah to know the history, Helen,” Newman said

“I remember when Bobby’s mother died We all assumed that her sister would take the baby I mean, Ray Marchand had divorced twice because he was married to his career Everyone knew that We couldn’t believe that he took the boy Muriel Babington got asked a lot why she didn’t take Bobby, and she told anyone that asked that she never wanted children, her own or anyone else’s We thought Bobby would end up raised by nannies or so, but Ray cut his hours and stoppedand was the best father he kne to be” Helen started tearing up again “And to think that all that kindness and love ended up with the boy he raised killing him”

Edward patted her hand, and she grasped his hand How did he do it? “How did Jocelyn know the pictures were on the phone?”

“She borrowed the phone to look soround, if you can believe it I mean, bold as brass, that”

“Did she confront him about it?” Edward asked

“She told hiave him permission to take them”

“How did you know the code to unlock the phone?” he asked, still holding her hand, or letting her hold his

“Jocelyn gave it to me so that I could unlock the phone for the sheriff”

“If Bobby was hiding pictures from her, seems like he wouldn’t want her to have the lock code to his phone”

“Bobby told her that he loved her so ed his code to her birth date”

“Very romantic,” Edward said

Helen pulled her hand out of his, her face offended “Not if it’s your own brother, it isn’t”