50 pages 1 hour read

Alaina Urquhart

The Butcher Game

Fiction | Short Story Collection | YA | Published in 2024

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Chapters 29-33

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Chapter 29 Summary

Content Warning: This section of the guide includes discussion of death, graphic violence, and mental illness.

The police receive a tip about a body at the old fairgrounds. On the way there, Leroux and another officer discuss the strange flowers scattered around town and on people’s porches, pondering if they are connected to the case. When Wren learns that they are southern magnolias, she tells Leroux that those were her wedding flowers, clearly unnerved by the connection. Wren thinks that Jeremy would bring his victims to the fairgrounds—a haunted and paralyzingly scary place. On the site, Wren smells something horrible and follows the odor to a pile of rotting flower petals in the corner of one of the abandoned buildings. Beneath the pile is Charlie’s body. Wren thinks that the fact that Jeremy is hiding the body is strange, especially since they wouldn’t have found it without the tip call.

Charlie has clearly been tortured and shot with a paintball gun, which Wren recognizes as Jeremy’s work. One of Charlie’s eyes is swollen, not as a result of decomposition. In her eye is a small piece of paper. When Wren carefully unfurls it with her tweezers, there’s only one word she can make out: “Richard.