My Duplicated Husband novel · Chapter 13 of 24
Chapter 13: Prints
The deputy finished the tenth finger and handed Lorne a wet wipe.
Nobody spoke.
The sheriff stood at the kitchen window with his back to us, looking at the ruined roses.
"Get your coats," he said finally. "All three of you."
"Three?" Joy said.
"You're a witness to something. I haven't decided what."
Dina pushed off the door frame, smiling.
"I'll follow in my own car," she said. "Wouldn't miss it."
The sheriff's office smelled of burned coffee and floor wax.
They put us in a back room with a steel table, a scanner the size of a toaster and one fluorescent tube that buzzed.
A technician in a gray cardigan took Lorne's ten prints off the pad and fed them into the machine.
Then the sheriff dropped a plastic evidence bag on the table.
Inside was the iron poker from our hearth.
"Found it behind the log basket," he said. "Somebody wiped it, but not well."
The technician dusted it and lifted two clean prints with tape.
She set them under the glass beside a printed card.
The card said PENHALLOW, LORNE, and a date from a pistol permit four years ago.
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