The Boutique Owner Told Me to Stay Quiet Before I Heard Something I Was Not Meant to Hear

told me to put it over the green gown so I would look different on the security footage if Lily tried to use it later. It smelled like laundry soap. I pulled it on.

We could both hear Lily’s voice outside the staff door, calling for me with sweet concern, asking if I was in there, saying she had been getting worried. The voice of a young woman performing continue reading …