Inflated Ego novel · Chapter 13 of 24
Chapter 13: The Warrant
"There's nothing on it I'd hide," I said.
It was the worst lie I had ever told, and VanBuskirk let it sit in the line.
"One hour, Mr. Donovan," she said. "Come to me, or I come to you."
She hung up.
Margot had heard every word.
"She'll see the earring," she said.
"What earring?"
"Mason."
"It's in the clip. I never looked for it. I only watched the edges." I pulled up the file and dragged the bar forward. "There."
My camera swung across the marble.
For a few seconds, a small green stone sat in the frame, beside Dale Schuler's shoe.
Margot put a hand over her mouth.
"And my grandfather is near the end," she said through her fingers. "Both of us, in one thirty-second video."
"Only one of you has to be in it."
There was a twenty-four-hour grocery on the corner, lit up green and white.
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