I Died When the Sky Fell, Now I Wake Up Holding Lightning novel · Chapter 8 of 24

Chapter 8: Lights Out

The deputies came at dawn, two cruisers with their lights off, and stopped at the yard gate.

I was already standing there.

I had not slept.

"Greta Mullaney?" said the older deputy, through the fence. "I have a warrant for your arrest."

"I know," I said. "I heard it on the radio."

"We'd like to do this quietly."

"So would I."

Hollis came up beside me, with Ward and Emmett and Abel behind him.

"You're not going," Hollis said.

"I am."

"Lorraine wants you inside her building."

"Good," I said. "I want to be inside her building."

He stared at me.

"There are two hundred people at the Center who sat at their desks and laughed when I stood up in that library," I said. "They're the ones who'll get a seat or get locked out. I'm not going to scare them from a fence. I'm going to walk through their front door."

"That's a trap," said Ward.

"Then bring a medic."

Ward didn't smile.

He picked up his bag.

They put me in the back of the cruiser without cuffs, because the older deputy looked at my hands and decided against it.

The Emergency Management Center was exactly as I had left it.

The flag, the gray walls, the dispatch floor on the second level behind glass.

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