The Beast on Her Leash novel · Chapter 13 of 24
Chapter 13: The Boy in the Cab
I did not tell him it was all right.
It wasn't, and he would have heard the lie.
"Sit down," I said. "Tell it the way it happened. Not the way you've practiced."
"I haven't practiced."
"Then you've never told it. Good. Start anywhere."
He sat on the end of the dock with his boots over the water.
Moose lowered himself beside him in sections, and Bram put one hand on the dog's back.
I sat down on his other side, close enough to touch, and I didn't.
"Fern had choir on Wednesdays," he said. "Lyle had to watch me."
"He hated it. So he took me with him, to the yard, for a night run."
"Unit 9 was his. I'd stuck a sticker on the bumper that week. Honk if you like my brother."
His mouth moved, not quite a smile.
"He thought it was funny. He kept it."
The river slid by under us.
"We were on River Road around eleven. There was a little hatchback ahead of us, going slow in the rain."
I closed my hands together in my lap.
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