The Secret Between Us novel · Chapter 15 of 24
Chapter 15: The Sheriff
The sheriff came on Thursday at nine, in a white county truck with the light bar dark.
He was a heavy, tired man in a tan jacket, and he looked like he'd rather be anywhere else.
Norris rode beside him in the passenger seat, holding a folder in both hands.
Behind them came a flatbed with two county deputies on the tailgate.
I stood on the gravel in front of my father's shed with my arms folded.
My father stood behind me, in his canvas apron, pale and silent.
The doctor had told him to sit down a week ago.
He hadn't sat down once.
"Isla," the sheriff said, getting out. "I'm sorry about this."
"Then don't do it."
"I've got paper."
"I know you do."
"I've got to serve it."
"I know that too."
He sighed and held out an envelope.
I didn't take it.
Down the dock, a pair of boots hit the planks.
Then another pair.
Then the whole yard was walking toward us, forty-one people in work jackets and rubber boots, coming up from the water.
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