nodded at Blair. He and the MPs left with the shackled Rogers.

 

A moment later Puller’s phone buzzed.

 

It was a text.

 

From Claire Jericho.

 

I’m so very sorry about your mother.

 

Puller threw the phone across the room.

 

Chapter 72

 

THE REMAINS WERE confirmed as Jackie Puller. The medical examiner concluded that

she had died from a blunt force trauma to the head, which corroborated what

Jericho had told Robert about the guard hitting Jackie with his gun.

 

Their mother was turned over to the Puller brothers and they undertook the

details for her burial. The question was whether they would tell their father

and have him attend the funeral, if that was even possible. They decided to

visit their dad and see how it went.

 

The hallway was quiet as they walked down it. Puller Sr.’s outbursts had become

less pronounced the longer he was a patient here.