“I need to confess something.. I did it. Now, can you pass the wine?”

Julius’s voice shakes me out of my thoughts as I look up from my food. Does he even realize what he just said?

“Julius. D—do you know what you just said?” I speak up, everyone else sitting at the table is clearly also surprised. “You basically admitted you committed the crime! You murdered Sadie!”

Julius’s expression doesn’t fal...