“The sallow-faced man indicated an empty chair with a jab of his red ballpoint pen. He paused to take a long sip of his coffee as I followed his order. Like a pair of drinking bird toys, the women next to him followed suit with twin slurps. The chair was one of those hard plastic ones that could make your butt fall asleep. Worse, someone had positioned it smack in between the two tables. So not only did you feel as if you were on trial in front of the probation board, but Bob McClatchy a...s well. Depending on who was talking, I would have to swivel my head if I wanted to look at them head-on. The muffled clop-clop of hooves on carpet echoed in my ear, and I had to remind myself not to turn and look. From the corner of my eye, I saw Destry approach and stand off to my left like a big block of ebony granite. Sallow-face swallowed his coffee and went on. “Ms. Chrissie, your absence has, as my colleague points out, been duly noted.MoreLessRead More Read Less
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