CHAPTER THIRTY THREE
9:15 p.m.
Ocean City, Maryland
“Girlfriend, where have you been all this time?” Ed Newsam said.
Trudy Wellington shrugged. “Here, there, and everywhere.”
Luke was astonished, again, by her beauty. He wouldn’t say that he had forgotten about it, or about her. More that he had gone so far into himself, and so far away, that for a long time these things no longer reached him.
“Any place you feel like sharing with the group?”
“If I could blindfold you and slip twelve-hour sleeping pills in your drinks, I would be happy to take you all with me.”
It was like a family reunion.
Even more than a family, it was like the reunion of a team that had won the championship some years before, and all the players had gone on with their own lives and their own careers. Now they
