"That text message" asked Steve Paxton, trying to calm down "was the last one in her life?"
"Yes," Moore admitted. "Do you know what message I'm talking about?"
Steve slowly withdrew his trembling hand so that the others would not notice it.
"How did she ... die?" Paxton asked, ignoring Kevin's question. "When?"
Moore gave him the date without ceasing to watch him. Steve's reaction was very nervous, and by this point any policeman would have been convinced of his guilt by now, but Kevin knew about Paxton's history of anxiety, which was in the media, for simplicity's sake, thrown into the bag labeled PTSD along with other similar disorders.
Paxton took a deep breath, trying to calm himself down.
"So I'm a suspect?" he asked directly.
"Yes," Moore admitted. "It's probably logical considering the content of this message."
