Welcome to Case Closed. You're listening to every time I go on vacation, Someone Dies by

Catherine Mack, narrated by Elizabeth Evans. Let's pick up where we left off last time.

Chapter 6. Death Takes a Holiday

When we find Harper near Trajan's column, my heart feels like it might explode.

She's hunched over on the ground, tangled up with another woman, and all I can think is that I can't even breathe without her.

My knees buckle, and Oliver catches me before I fall.

Harper! I shout as I go down.

She turns and writes herself,

I'm okay, just a bit scuffed.

Oliver sets me back on my feet, then takes a step away from me.

I feel like I'm going to start crying, and I'm not sure what's making me so emotional. Harper's okay, and the shock of seeing

Oliver has worn off. Those screams, though, they're going to be hard to forget. Why were you

screaming?

I wasn't.

It was... She motions to the ground, where the other woman rises slowly and starts to dust herself off.

I realize she's not a stranger.

She's...

Allison, Connor says, pulling up beside us, slightly out of breath.

"'I'd know that shriek anywhere.'

"'Alison Smith, nay, Rogers.

"'Connor's ex-wife.'

"'Oh, did I not mention her?'

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