Chapter 59
Jayce
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I COULDN’T GET the image out of my head of the dead body in the downstairs freezer. I knew, even before I raised the lid, that I’d find something out of a horror movie. I only looked for a split second, too, but it had been long enough to provide me with plenty of future nightmares.
After Ava threw up, she demanded to see the body, but I talked her out of it. I wasn’t a forensic specialist, but something told me that freezer had been working for quite a while before the electricity was shut off. Which was why it smelled so f*****g bad and the corpse looked so ripe.
We called the police and told Penny about the body. She started crying and soon, both women were holding and comforting each other.
Two squad cars appeared a short time later, along with an ambula
