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"Why?" He turned on her, his jaw set in anger I’d never seen my dad like this He was always the calm one, the stable one "So she can end up in the hospital every other week? You want this for her?"
"Dad, I want her to be happy She likes her job and she’s good at it and it’s not up to us"
He turned frousted I wondered where Denise was, the step down the hall, worry lining her face She looked up as two officers walked past and stepped into the roohn, naturally, and I knew this was about to get much, much worse
"Charlotte Davidson?" the officer that I didn’t know and who had never tried to kill me asked
"Dad," Ge"
"That’s her," Vaughn said, as though he hated to do it
Uncle Bob spoke up then, suspicion thickening in his voice "What are you doing, Leland?"
"What I should have done a long tio"
"Ms Davidson," the officer said, "we’re here to place you under arrest for aiding and abetting an escaped convict and obstruction of justice in the apprehension and arrest of said convict"
My jaw fell to the floor I looked from them to Dad and back
"Dad, please," Ge to ask that you come in voluntarily within the next week to be fores as a licensed private investigator have been suspended until an investigation can determine the extent of your involvement in Reyes Farrow’s escape and continued evasion"
With the wind knocked completely out of me, I sat in stunned silence as he spoke My father did this The one person I could always count on growing up My rock
Somewhere between the drips of a leaky water faucet nearby, I slipped into a surreal state of consciousness I heard Dad and Uncle Bob arguing violently, nurses rush in and out, Ge tones But the world had been dipped in red My dad Reyes Nathan Yost Earl Walker It was enough to bring out the anger in a girl
My sudden spike in annoyance must have summoned Reyes He was there at once, enshrouded in his undulating robe He looked froain And he was not a person I wanted to see In fact, he was more a person I wanted to punish Because I saw betrayal Unconscionable behavior Murder