My Family Wants Me Gone, I Take Their Luck With Me novel · Chapter 26 of 32

Chapter 26: The Carousel Turns

Clarissa stopped.

The suitcase stopped behind her, its broken wheel still turning.

"I think you've got the wrong person," she said. Her voice was low and pleasant, nothing like the one she'd used on us.

"Take off the sunglasses, please, ma'am."

She didn't.

The line behind her had gone silent. A teenager already had his phone up.

The officer reached out and lifted the sunglasses off her face himself.

Big blue eyes. No makeup.

Twenty-two years old, and somehow older than anyone in that line.

"There's a warrant for your arrest," the officer said. "Fraud and forgery in two jurisdictions. Conspiracy to commit arson."

"Arson?" Clarissa laughed. "I've never set a fire in my life."

"No," I said. "You just made a phone call."

She turned her head.

She found me by the pillar.

For a second the old sweetness tried to come back into her face. It didn't make it.

"Of course," she said. "Of course it's you. You couldn't even let me have a plane."

Then she saw who was standing beside me.

The woman from up the coast hadn't moved. She had both hands in the pockets of her raincoat and her pencil in her hair.

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