Chapter FifteenBecause he was a minor Jeffrey's name hadn't been mentioned in any of the press accounts of the killing, but word of his involvement reached the grapevine nevertheless, and inside the factory where Beverly Phillips worked assembling vacuum cleaners, accounts of what had happened spread like high school rumors of teenage s****l conquests. No one said anything, but she could hear the whispers and muffled conversations, and she could feel the curious stares when her back was turned.
Although it had been rough raising Jeffrey without a father in a tough neighborhood while holding down a full- time job, she had things better than a lot of single mothers. At least she had a steady job and only one child. And her mother helped out quite a bit, especially when Jeff was younger. Unt
