The Dress He Bought Three Days Early
“She was afraid of him.”
“She was afraid enough to write it down and hide a phone,” Michael said.
“That’s as far as I’ll go, and it’s further than I’d normally go.”
Margaret sat there for a while.
“Why didn’t she call me?”
And Michael Turner, who had known Emily since she was nineteen, gave her the only answer anybody has ever been able to give.