Tean chafed his arms.“Who’s Kazen?”
“Kazen Shumway.”She turned her head, as though indicating a direction.“I don’t really know him, but he’s in our stake.Wasin our stake, I guess, because he’s gay, and he doesn’t go to church anymore.”
Groping for a way to ask about Brennon’s relationship with Kazen, Tean finally settled on “Is he a friend?”
“He’s, like, twenty,” Tilar said, shaking her head.And then, as though explaining something that should have been obvious.“He didn’t go on a mission.”
“Was your dad his Young Men president too?”
Another shake of her head.“He’s a different ward, you know?I didn’t even know DadknewKazen.”Her voice shrank.“But that’s what Mom meant, right?That he didsomething.”
“You said you heard your dad go for a run Sunday morning,” Jem said.“Did he come back?”
Tilar looked at him like he was an idiot.“Yeah.”
“Do you remember what time?”
“I don’t know.I was asleep.”
“But you saw him again.”
“Yeah.We didn’t go to church.He stayed in the basement all day.”
“Did he leave again?”
“Yeah, that night.”She frowned.“I already told the police all of this.”
“I know,” Jem said, “but it’s really helpful to go over it again.Do you know what time he left?”
“Late.Ten-thirty?Eleven?”
“And when did he get home?”
“He didn’t.That’s when—that’s when Brother Young killed him.”
“How do you know that?”Tean asked.
“Because he didn’t come back.”
“No, I mean, how do you know it was Ammon?”
“Because of Daniel.”
“But—” Tean began.
Jem cut in.“Do you know where your dad was going that night?”
Tilar shook her head.
“Maybe the police found something on his phone?”Jem asked.“Or in his car?Anything that might have given them an idea where he was going and what he was doing.”
Tilar gave the makeup on her fingers another considering look and then wiped them on her tights.“But they didn’t find his phone.Or his car.”
10
They drove to the Harmons parking lot and sat in the glare of a security light.An ache was packed at the back of Tean’s head, and when he blinked, his eyelids felt gummy.
Jem scrolled and tapped on his phone, but after a moment, he said, “So, this guy was a real piece of shit.”