But then she pictured Ken’s blame-thirsty finger pointing at her—How dare you, Abby. You promised not to tell—and her heart raced. Had what happened between them all those years ago been more his doing than hers? Gretchen certainly thought so. Abby had overheard her stepmother telling her father that he needed to do something about Ken’s “inappropriate” behavior, and her father telling Gretchen to mind her own business, that they were just kids. Abby hoped that might be the end of it, but once Gretchen had put the notion out into the world, there was no bringing it back. Ken had heard the
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