Florence was staring at her. “My God! You don’t know?” “Know what?” Ashley demanded fiercely. “What are you talking about?”
“The day after the graduation party, Jim’s parents came back and found his body. He had been stabbed to death and... castrated.”
The room started to spin. Ashley held on to the edge of the table. Florence grabbed her arm.
“I’m-I’m sorry, Ashley. I thought you would have read about it, but of course... you had left for London.”
Ashley squeezed her eyes tightly shut. She saw herself sneaking out of the house that night, heading toward Jim Cleary’s house.
But she had turned and gone back home to wait for him in the morning. If only I had gone to him, Ashley thought miserably,
he would still be alive. And all these years I’ve hated him. Oh, my God. Who could have killed him? Who-?
She could hear her father’s voice, “You keep your goddamned hands off my daughter, do you understand?
If I ever see you around here again, I’ll break every bone in your body.” She got to her feet.
“You’ll have to excuse me, Florence. I-I’m not feeling very well.” And Ashley fled.
The detectives. They must have gotten in touch with her father. Why didn’t he tell me?
She took the first plane back to California. It was early in the morning before she could fall asleep.
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