Rowena looked at Ashley then, finally. “That’s why I wore it,” she said. “Not to provoke you. To see if he would recognize it. To see if time had erased the truth from his face.” Bill’s reaction had answered the question before any words could.
Bill swallowed hard. “The moment I saw it,” he said, “I knew.” His voice broke slightly. “I remembered how careful she was with it. How alive she sounded talking about the future.” Ashley understood then why fear—not guilt—had crossed his face in the aisle.