Pitch Black
“HENRY’S MOTHER WAS A NERVOUS, underfed redhead who gave Gabe the impression that she ran solely on the “ines”—caffeine and nicotine. He had never seen her without a cigarette in her hand. Except in the hospital yesterday, which was a strictly non-smoking facility. Every time he’d laid eyes on her in the ER, the jittery woman was pacing around with a cup of black coffee in her hands.
When he knocked on the door of the Henry duplex, she opened it and peered at him through a ribbon of smoke that c...urled from the cigarette pinched between the first two fingers of her left hand.
“Mrs. Henry, I’d like to speak to J.D. for a few minutes, if I may.”
For a moment, she simply stared at him. He thought perhaps she didn’t recognize him. “I’m Sheriff Wyatt.”
“I ain’t blind. I seen the uniform. I ain’t stupid neither; you talked to me yesterday.”
Nervous and bitchy. Gabe felt a stab of sympathy for J.D. And, he thought, just maybe J.D.’s older brother had been driven to the crime he was sitting in jail for.MoreLess
When he knocked on the door of the Henry duplex, she opened it and peered at him through a ribbon of smoke that c...urled from the cigarette pinched between the first two fingers of her left hand.
“Mrs. Henry, I’d like to speak to J.D. for a few minutes, if I may.”
For a moment, she simply stared at him. He thought perhaps she didn’t recognize him. “I’m Sheriff Wyatt.”
“I ain’t blind. I seen the uniform. I ain’t stupid neither; you talked to me yesterday.”
Nervous and bitchy. Gabe felt a stab of sympathy for J.D. And, he thought, just maybe J.D.’s older brother had been driven to the crime he was sitting in jail for.MoreLess
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