Monsters Got Blamed for Murder, So I Relived the Victim's Last Hour novel · Chapter 20 of 32
Chapter 20: The Board
Halina's POV
The fire stairs of the County Building smelled of floor wax and old coffee, and at 9:35 on Monday morning we had them to ourselves.
Reiss stopped on the landing between the third and fourth floors and held out his phone.
"Joliet," he said. "Wednesday."
I looked at the photograph for a long time, a silver ring grown into a gray toe under a skin of frost.
A blue tag beside it read 42,016.
He told me about the hall, the eight racks, the clipboards with a checkmark in the FIND column.
He told me about the ninth rack and the Director's hold.
He said it so evenly that I could hear what he was not saying.
"It's probably not hers," he said. "There are a million rings like that."
"There are," I said.
"I couldn't read the inside. It's grown in."
"Then we'll get it out," I said. "With a saw and a court order, and with me standing next to you."
He looked at the wall, and I saw his jaw work.
"I should have told you Wednesday night."
"You told me what you could carry."
I put my hand flat on his chest, over the gray windbreaker and the Kevlar, and I felt his heart going hard under both.
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