Chapter 015 – The Deputy
Chapter 15 - Chapter 015 – The Deputy
At seven-fifteen, a deputy came into the station for coffee.
Calvin pointed at me with his chin.
The deputy was a young woman with dark hair in a tight bun and a face that had not yet learned to look bored by pain.
“Ma’am,” she said, “are you all right?”
That question is dangerous after a certain age.
If you say yes, people leave.
If you say no, they decide what kind of no you mean.
I looked at her badge.
Deputy Nora Bell.
“No,” I said. “My children left me here.”
She did not gasp.
May you like
She did something better.
She took out a notebook.
