“Sam.” Amanda took a step away from me and closer to the bride. “I never dreamed I’d be here on the day of your wedding. I wouldn’t be here if I didn’t think it was important.”

Sam’s eyes moved back and forth between Amanda and me. “You shouldn’t be here.” Her eyes landed on me. “You have both said you never want to have anything more to do with Blake. You’ve both said awful things about him. He invited you here in good faith, and you said no. And all that trouble from college. He’s facing charges from the accident now. They’re going to come after him for vehicular homicide. So why are you here? You say you don’t want to interrupt—then don’t. Leave. Just let us finally get married, okay? We’ve worked it all out, so leave us be.”

Amanda moved even closer. She reached into her pocket and brought out her phone. “I know, Sam. You sent those threatening messages to Jennifer Bates. You sent them on the day she died, and you said you were coming over to her house.”

Sam’s eyes moved slowly from me to Amanda as she spoke. And outrage spread across her face as she understood what Amanda was saying.

I had no idea what Amanda was implying. Or why.

“You’re both crazy,” Sam said. “You’d both do anything to ruin the wedding. Please leave. Okay? Just leave.”

Sam lifted the hem of her dress, elevating it above the gravel and dirt, and turned back to the Barn. But before she went back in, Amanda said, “Lily Rose. That’s the name you used for the fake account when you wrote to Jennifer. You threatened her from that account.”

Sam closed her eyes. She looked like we were a great burden, trying the last ounce of patience she possessed. “Please. Not today.”

“Amanda,” I said.

Amanda shook her head at me. “Lily Rose. The cops don’t know, at least not yet. But remember, you told me once.” Amanda laughed a little at the absurdity of it all. “We all played that stupid drinking game when we went out for your friend’s bachelorette party. Seven months ago, a month before Henry was born and we stopped speaking to Blake.”

“You stopped speaking to him,” Sam said.