Found by Shelley Shepard Gray

Author:Shelley Shepard Gray [Gray, Shelley Shepard]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2012-09-03T14:00:00+00:00

Chapter 16

“Years ago when I would follow Jacob and Perry to school, I used to imagine that it was Jacob walking by my side, and that it was Perry who was following. Of course, Perry would have never followed either of us. That wasn’t his way.”

DEBORAH BORNTRAGER

Overcome, Deborah threw the cell phone down and stared at it like it was on fire. Jacob had been fighting with Perry the evening he died? They’d been arguing and fighting and Perry was left bleeding while Jacob ran away?

Her head pounded as all of the consequences ran together in her mind. Jacob was to blame for Perry’s death. Maybe completely to blame. In addition, he’d been hiding the truth from her for months. No matter what he’d said, he hadn’t trusted her. Or maybe, rather, it was that he hadn’t wanted her to know his guilt.

And all this time, she’d been harboring her own secret about the man she’d loved for most of her life.

Feeling like each of her feet weighed a hundred pounds, she slowly walked over to her desk drawer, pulled out an old devotional, and carefully pulled out the note she’d hidden inside.

The one she’d snuck out of Perry’s room.

The note that Jacob had written to Perry, promising him that he would one day make Perry sorry for all the pain he’d caused them.

She’d been sure it was just another example of Jacob letting his emotions get the best of him. Afraid that someone would get the wrong idea about his words, she’d kept the note hidden.

But now it seemed that there was a very good chance that she’d been the one who’d completely misunderstood Jacob. Feeling sick to her stomach, she knew she was going to have to show the note to Mose.

Even if it meant admitting her folly and caused Jacob to hate her for the rest of her life.

Even it if helped Mose and Detective Reynolds arrest Jacob. She had to do this for Perry.

But this was going to hurt. Giving in to her grief, she laid down on her bed and let the tears fall for what she was going to have to do.

All this time, she’d been sure no other man could ever measure up to Jacob. She’d refused to see his faults. Instead, she’d made excuses for his rudeness or his selfish ways. Instead of realizing that he was never going to be the man for her, she gave him second and third chances. How could she be so stupid?

She hiccupped after a few moments, reliving Jacob’s phone call. And then she realized what he hadn’t said. He hadn’t mentioned his reasons for looking for Perry. He hadn’t even said whether the fight had been an accident or on purpose. All he’d said was that he and Perry had fought, but that he hadn’t killed him.

With the policemen standing right there, he’d taken the time to call her. Almost as if she mattered to him as much as he mattered to her.

Did he still?

Maybe,

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