About a month later, he got the call about the fire at Ron’s shitty little dealership. Someone had used gasoline to blow up the trailer with Ron in it. The local cops had ruled it a suicide, and at the time he accepted it. Ron’s continuing odd phone conversations, the withdrawing from friends and family, abrupt life changes when he should’ve been settling down into a nice, stable retirement with his wife—all of it made sense. Burning down the building and making it look like an accident would cash out a nice life insurance policy for Holly. But due to the chaotic nature of life—one of Ron’s
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