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Chapter Twelve
I STARED AT THAT FLASHLIGHT and the red smear feeling as if I was standing before my father once again being accused of something I didn’t do. Don’t lie to me! The skin on my back felt as if it was crawling around under my shirt.
“Is this your flashlight?” Sam asked.
“It…looks like it.”
“What’s it doing here?”
“I don’t know. I didn’t put it there.”
“You think Ashleigh did?”
The photographer nudged in next to me focusing his camera on the flashlight. I stepped back. “I swear to you I have no idea how it got there.” The strobe went off and the camera beeped.
“Could Ashleigh have done it?” Lizard Lips asked.
My mouth felt hot. “Of course she could have. I was passed out on the deck. Anybody could have done it.”
The man’s tongue danced back and forth across his lower lip. “But, did she?”
My stomach soared and I burped. “As far as I know there were only two of us and I was passed out in the rain.” An
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