![]() ![]() It was the one thing she loved about small towns-you never parked more than thirty feet away from the front door you wanted. “ How can you think your boyfriend would do Sheriff Randolph had arranged a whole-town meeting to discuss Peggy’s disappearance, and the detective his dad had hired was going to be there with him. “ Listen, I gotta go.” “Yeah, okay,” he said, and she bopped him on the nose-what was he, six? and said he’d see her tonight at the assembly. ![]() ![]() ![]() Laura set the file of assignments she’d brought on Peggy’s desk, on top of the ones from Monday and Tuesday. “What if he really did something and he tries to do something to me too?” Milo had a gruesome thought but didn’t speak it: if he did something to her, then what did he do with her? He was dizzy at the prospects and filled with a trembling cold this wasn’t a mystery book. What did that have to do with anything? “ Did Kerry tell Sheriff Randolph that he was at Castle Farm?” “ I’m sure he did-I did too-but the question is, did he tell him he was there after midnight?” “Why don’t you ask him?” “I can’t just ask him,” Laura huffed. It was like people saying you’re a boy or from rural Nebraska. She wouldn’t hurt me for the world, but she would, you know?” “I don’t know.” “You don’t know-know because you’re twelve.” Milo hated when people used that as an excuse. ![]()
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