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The prologue then gives way to a later scene in a pub where Joni meets Hector Fortescue, a man whose resemblance to Cassie and connection to Ruby’s past triggers uneasy questions about family, guilt, and hidden agendas. Relationships, secrets, and consequences escalate as characters confront who they were and what they are willing to do next.","THE BIRTHDAY PARTY  \nTERI TERRY  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nFor Scooby  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nCONTENTS  \nPrologue  \nChapter 1  \nChapter 2  \nChapter 3  \nChapter 4  \nChapter 5  \nChapter 6  \nChapter 7  \nChapter 8  \nChapter 9  \nChapter 10  \nChapter 11  \nChapter 12  \nChapter 13  \nChapter 14  \nChapter 15  \nChapter 16  \nChapter 17  \nChapter 18  \nChapter 19  \nChapter 20  \nChapter 21  \nChapter 22  \nChapter 23  \nChapter 24  \nChapter 25  \nChapter 26  \nChapter 27  \nChapter 28  \nChapter 29  \nChapter 30  \nChapter 31  \nChapter 32  \nChapter 33  \nChapter 34  \nChapter 35  \nChapter 36  \nChapter 37  \nChapter 38  \nChapter 39  \nChapter 40  \nChapter 41  \nChapter 42  \nChapter 43  \nChapter 44  \nChapter 45  \nChapter 46  \nChapter 47  \nChapter 48  \nChapter 49  \nChapter 50  \nChapter 51  \nChapter 52  \nChapter 53  \nChapter 54  \nChapter 55  \nChapter 56  \nChapter 57  \nChapter 58  \nChapter 59  \nChapter 60  \nChapter 61  \nChapter 62  \nChapter 63  \nChapter 64  \nChapter 65  \nChapter 66  \nChapter 67  \nChapter 68  \nChapter 69  \nChapter 70  \nChapter 71  \nChapter 72  \nThank you!  \nAcknowledgements  \nMore from Teri Terry  \nAbout the Author  \nAlso by Teri Terry  \nThe Murder List  \nAbout Boldwood Books  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nPROLOGUE  \nMy baby girl. Her pale face is smeared red, blood oozing from a cut on her forehead. She’s breathing, her heart skipping a rapid th-thump, th-thump, but her eyes are closed.  \n‘Ruby? Ruby, please, please be all right.’ I say her name again and again like a prayer, but she doesn’t stir. She isn’t hurt anywhere else I can see or feel, but her hair is sticky with blood.  \nThe coppery smell is mixing with something else, sweet and pungent. Petrol? We need to get out of the car – now.  \nFear gives me strength and I somehow ease her out of her seat and through the passenger door, breathing hard with the effort, ignoring the pain in my neck, my chest. Cradling her against me, my arms under hers, I pull her as far as I can away from the car, then gently lower her to the ground.  \nI walk back unsteadily to check on Cassie. She is splayed on the ground where she landed after we hit her, arms and legs a tangled mess of bone and blood. As if she knows I’m there, blue eyes flutter open, startle like a wild animal in a trap, looking for escape. But there will be none. Her eyes soon still. They stay open but the light behind them is gone.  \nSome of the bottles in the back of the car aren’t broken. I take that the car hasn’t burst into flames as a sign. Hands shaking, I grasp one and manage to rip off the foil, loosen the champagne wire and release the cork. It foams over and I try to catch it all with my greedy mouth, then drink it back. The bubbles make me cough and it hurts, but I do it again. Despite what has happened tonight, the rush and relief to feel it is so powerful, it’s  \nalmost ecstasy. Warmth slides through me, blunts the horror, the sharp pain I feel now with each breath.  \nI go back to Ruby. Sit on the road next to her, lean on the crumbling stone wall.  \nFocus.  \nI get my phone out of my pocket to call emergency services. There’s been an accident, I tell them. A terrible accident. On Cliff Road, heading to Salcombe from North Sands Beach. A girl on the road, she’s hurt bad. I can’t bring myself to say the words, but I know Cassie isn’t just hurt; she’s dead. And my daughter – she hit her head on the dash, she’s bleeding. No, she’s not conscious, I say when they ask. Now I’m panicking what that might mean, and I open another bottle.  \nI hold her hand. So many adventures we were meant to have. So many times, I got it all so very wrong. I’m sorry, Ruby. I make the promise I’ve made and broken over and again: I’ll make it up to you. Maybe this time I will finally keep it.  \nAnother drink and another. I can’t believe my Ruby is eighteen, today, and I sing happy birthday to her. Then another song, the one with my name – she always liked that one. 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