Page 164 of Think Twice

“The bank account in North Carolina.”

“Ah.”

“Still,” Myron says, “you’re a planner.”

“I am.”

“So you came up with a scheme in the event you got caught.”

Greg smiles again. “You’re good at this.”

“No, not really. But I can get in your head a bit.”

“It is what made you a tough competitor on the court.”

“Right after I found you in Pine Bush,” Myron continues, “you were arrested. Your DNA was at the murder scene. You’d be convicted. You knew all this. So your only play was to do what you’d always done—pin it on someone else. Grace called the FBI pretending to be an anonymous source. She pointed to the other killings. She said it was all the work of a serial killer who framed innocent people—and that you were the killer’s latest mark. Grace even went so far as to kill Ronald Prine because then the FBI would know for sure that you, sitting in a jail cell, couldn’t be the serial killer.”

“It worked.”

“Except Grace wasn’t as good at planning as you.”

“No, that was my forte.”

“She decided to set up Jeremy for all of it. She’d make him out to be the serial killer.”

“Stupid.”

“She planted the phone in his room.”

“Grace probably thought I’d approve.”

Myron makes a face. “She thought you’d approve of framing your own son?”

“Grace found out that Jeremy wasn’t really mine, Myron.”

Greg gives Myron that smile again and waits for Myron to take the bait. When Myron doesn’t, Greg continues. “Grace probably saw what she was doing as poetic justice. In her eyes, Jeremy was the evil spawn of my cheating enemy. Why not kill that enemy and pin it on his evil spawn?”

The two men sit there for a long time. Neither speaks. The silence is strangely comfortable. Both know that they’ve reached the endgame, but neither feels the need to rush it.

Finally, Greg slaps his thighs with both hands and says, “So now you know.”

“Now I know.”

“You also know me,” Greg says. “You know me like no one else does.”

“Meaning?”

“You know that I’m no longer a danger.”

This seems to reach Myron, but he still asks, “How do I know that?”

“Because we both get love and loss.”

Myron stays silent.

“Do you know what the problem is when two hearts become one?” Greg asks.

Myron shakes his head. Greg stands up and crosses the room.