Chapter 18
“WHAT...WHAT DID you just say?” I asked Joanna, who wasn’t making any sense.
“I saw Billy. He’s alive,” she repeated and then gasped. “Oh, my God. It’s Phillip. He’s home. He must have seen me.”
Stunned that I’d heard her right, my heart began to pound. “Wait. What do you mean that Billy is alive?”
“Phillip was at the cabin. I thought he was cheating on me, so I drove up there. I peeked into the window and saw him up there, with your son,” she whispered quickly.
“That’s impossible,” I said in a husky voice. I’d seen my son’s lifeless body in the hospital before they’d wheeled him away. His ashes were now in the urn, sitting in my living room.
“I know but... I also know what I saw. I have to go. He’s hollering for me.” Joanna hung up.
I slipped the phone into my purse, my
