Bed of Lies
“He spent Sunday feeling guilty about everything and reading over files, then went to visit his client and the public defender assigned to Tony's case.
Returning to his room Sunday night, he heard his cell phone ringing as soon as he powered it back on. He hadn't answered any calls since he'd left Gwen in Cleveland, but he couldn't ignore them forever. He dialed into his voice mail. Mother, father, sister, sister, mother. He listened to a few words of each one and then erased them.
Until he hear...d a sad, shaky voice say, "Zach, it's Julie…." He played the message three times, and each time she sounded worse. The social worker was a friend of Gwen's mother? Life just got better and better. Peter was in an emergency shelter while the social worker picked Julie's life apart. She'd hate that. But at no point in her message did she ask for help. She wouldn't.
She hadn't asked anything of him, except for him to go away after he first spotted her in that restaurant in Memphis. And what had he done?MoreLess
Returning to his room Sunday night, he heard his cell phone ringing as soon as he powered it back on. He hadn't answered any calls since he'd left Gwen in Cleveland, but he couldn't ignore them forever. He dialed into his voice mail. Mother, father, sister, sister, mother. He listened to a few words of each one and then erased them.
Until he hear...d a sad, shaky voice say, "Zach, it's Julie…." He played the message three times, and each time she sounded worse. The social worker was a friend of Gwen's mother? Life just got better and better. Peter was in an emergency shelter while the social worker picked Julie's life apart. She'd hate that. But at no point in her message did she ask for help. She wouldn't.
She hadn't asked anything of him, except for him to go away after he first spotted her in that restaurant in Memphis. And what had he done?MoreLess
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