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JANICE KAY JOHNSON 247
“She’s started seeing someone else. One of the
students e-mailed me.”
“Uh-huh. What’s the last thing she said to you?”
“Said, or e-mailed?”
Talking a placid sip of her coffee, his sister said, “So
she e-mailed later. Okay. What did she say then?”
“That I knew where to find her if I wanted to talk.”
“So, not hopeless.”
His spirits rose momentarily, then crashed and
burned. “That was three months ago.”
“Idiot,” his beloved little sister said without heat.
“The price was too high.”
Her eyes narrowed. “Actually talking to her. That’s
too high a price?”
John shifted uneasily. “I talked.”
“But not about the big pink elephant crashing
around in the living room. She was supposed to
ignore that.”
“She knew…I had issues.” The searing pain in his
gut was back.
“Issues?”
“Nightmares.”
“Before she came up here at Christmas? She knew
you had nightmares? Which means she slept with you
when she had students here?”
He scowled at her. “Of course she didn’t.”
“So, not nightmares. What?”
“Flashbacks!” he shouted, then closed his eyes. Get
a grip. “I had a flashback,” he mumbled. “Fiona knew.”
“And yet, she came to spend time with you at Christmas.”
Liz sounded thoughtful.