Chapter 20

• ANYTHING YOU WANT DARLING
• Ashlyn Peters was her daddy’s girl. All her life she had been given everything she wanted on a silver platter…within her daddy’s means, of course, he wasn’t rich or anything. She had the best clothes her daddy could afford, even if it meant he had to wear last year’s suits to work. On her sixteenth birthday, Daddy had bought her a brand new car off the showroom floor. It was a long way from the new Camaro she had hoped for, but it was new. Ashlyn had been picked as the head cheerleader in her Sophomore year and had remained as head cheerleader through this, her last year in high school.
• She had been elected Prom Queen in both her Junior and Senior years, and she had been dating the quarterback and captain of the football team for two years. One would expect her to be resented by the other girls, but she was surprisingly well-liked by her peers. Even though Ashlyn seemed bulletproof when it came to trouble, she was good-hearted, good-natured, and kind to those less fortunate than herself. She had realized shortly after her father had bought her new car just how big a struggle it was to keep up her payments and insurance, and she had experienced her first real argument with her dad when she tried to resign as head cheerleader to take a part-time job. They had finally compromised and he allowed her to babysit for gas and spending money. She wasn’t contributing as much as she wanted, but she did make a difference.