She pauses for a moment, not willing to show her hand on the most painful secret in a long line of painful secrets kept in Cassie's house. About the motherhood she has that's only borrowed time.

"Tom and Rachel Berenson," she finally says, voice low. "But we'd rather they not learn how dead they were."

Tom knows, or at least highly suspects. Rachel may not. Eva hasn't had the heart to bring it up.

Marco? Marco doesn't know he's as good as dead.

"Well, plants can't really use their last breaths to beg for mercy," she says, equally dry.