New Husband. Old One Gone novel · Chapter 23 of 32
Chapter 23: Property of the United States
I almost laughed again.
"Major Lanier handed that phone to my mother," I said. "In a box. Right before the flag."
"I know how it got to your family, ma'am." He sounded like he hadn't slept either. "I also know a field-grade officer filed a complaint in writing. So I need to see it. Ten o'clock."
"You'll have it at ten."
I handed Sawyer back his phone.
He was sitting up against the headboard with his hair flat on one side.
"He's calling you a thief," he said.
"He read my complaint. He knows there's a video." I found my jeans on the floor. "He thinks it came off that phone."
"He wants it in a government bag, and me in the paper as the girl who stole it."
Sawyer swung his legs out of bed.
"I'm driving," he said.
At a quarter to nine I spun the dial on Daddy's gun safe in the yard office.
Mama was at her desk behind me with her ledger open, pretending to add.
The safe door swung out.
Jesse's phone lay in its plastic bag on top of his Panthers hat.
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