I sit frozen in my black dress with palms joined on my lap. The funeral unfolds before my blank eyes, and so do the days after. I count them by the number of times Jeanie Simmons – Jeremy’s curly-haired, rosy-cheeked, fluffy younger sister and my dearest friend – enters with food. I nibble just enough …
Jeremy wraps the place up, giving his men curt orders and telling Lord Barkley to shut up each time the man opens his mouth. “Anything you say can and will be used against you, sir, I must remind you,” he says coldly. His men scurry around taking “prints” of the Marquis. They’re still in shock, …
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