The Girls Trip

Chapter 16 Ash

ASH

CARO LET GO OF the rope. She’s falling.

She’s scrabbling with her arms and legs, trying to catch herself, but she’s sliding; she can’t find any purchase. Caro’s tumbling, almost to the bench, and if the bench doesn’t catch her—

Ash realizes that she is screaming.

Hope grabs on to Caro, slowing her fall, and the two of them tumble, they slide, they hit the lower bench—

and Caro stops, caught by the lip at the edge—

but Hope

oh, God, Hope

is gone.