The Ghosts of Now (2013)
“But some of the lines of Jeremy’s lonely, desperate poetry bounce off the walls of my mind and send shudders down my backbone.
I push them away and take a step closer to Boyd, my face almost against his, but he doesn’t flinch. “There’s something else you’re not telling me. I think you put a man’s wristwatch in Jeremy’s desk. It was stolen in a robbery, and you have to be the one who put it there. I don’t know why you did that. So tell me!”
“Where is the watch?”
“Back where it belongs.”
“What ar...e we talking about then? A watch that doesn’t exist?”
“I found it in Jeremy’s desk drawer.”
He smiles. “But now you can’t prove there was a watch, can you?”
“I—I guess not.”
He sidles away from the pillar, moving back. “I told you what you wanted to know. What’s the matter with you, Angie? Why dream up a lot of other junk?”
Suddenly he looks upward, to someone beyond me, and a strange look flickers across his face so rapidly that I can’t read it.MoreLess
I push them away and take a step closer to Boyd, my face almost against his, but he doesn’t flinch. “There’s something else you’re not telling me. I think you put a man’s wristwatch in Jeremy’s desk. It was stolen in a robbery, and you have to be the one who put it there. I don’t know why you did that. So tell me!”
“Where is the watch?”
“Back where it belongs.”
“What ar...e we talking about then? A watch that doesn’t exist?”
“I found it in Jeremy’s desk drawer.”
He smiles. “But now you can’t prove there was a watch, can you?”
“I—I guess not.”
He sidles away from the pillar, moving back. “I told you what you wanted to know. What’s the matter with you, Angie? Why dream up a lot of other junk?”
Suddenly he looks upward, to someone beyond me, and a strange look flickers across his face so rapidly that I can’t read it.MoreLess
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