Mom Abandoned Me to Save Herself novel · Chapter 15 of 24
Chapter 15: Up the Mountain
"Then we find it first," I said.
On Monday morning I drove her to the barracks myself.
She went into the captain's office alone and shut the door.
She was in there two hours. When she came out, she'd been crying, and she was standing up straight.
"I told him my name," she said. "You can hear it in court."
The captain walked us to the lot.
"One witness who was there," he said. "That's a start. Now I need to know which cabins, how many men, and which road. And I need it without anybody in that county hearing I asked."
"I can get you that."
"How?"
"I was born there."
On Tuesday I drove back up the logging road for the first time in eighteen years.
I took the Peterbilt with no trailer, because logging trucks run that road every day and nobody looks at one more.
Clem rode beside me with his shotgun across his knees.
Alastair and Augustus sat on the edge of the sleeper behind us, knees bumping.
Two of Alastair's men followed in a mud-brown pickup.
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