He Ranked Her First, I Chose Myself novel · Chapter 17 of 24
Chapter 17: Last Call
I looked at the page in my hand.
Then at her.
"Do you want to lose it?" I said.
"I want to keep my job."
"That's not what I asked."
She was quiet for a long moment.
"No," she said. "I don't want to lose it."
"Then don't. Make three copies. Keep one at home. Give one to me. File the original with an incident report before you leave tonight, with the time on it."
"He's got a father on the board."
"He's got four pages marked delivered."
She looked at the paper again.
Then she took it back from me and went out to the copier.
I watched her feed it in, one sheet, three times.
The welder's sister came out of surgery at four in the morning with a new line of stitches and a pressure of one-twenty.
By the following Tuesday she was home, and the welder sent the ED a tray of cupcakes from the tire shop guy's wife.
Tuesday night, I went to Mahaffey's after a day shift.
It was quiet.
The two retired cops in their corner booth, arguing about a sandwich.
The woman who used to take her pills twice a day, doing a crossword at the end of the bar.
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