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Chapter 29: The Letter

I didn't open it in the courtroom.

I carried it all the way home to the Frio.

I walked down past both pits and the tin shed, to the flat rock at the edge of the water where Macey had cried in June.

Deke came down a few minutes behind me.

Then he sat down beside me on the rock.

I slit the old tape with my thumbnail.

There were two pages of lined paper inside, folded in thirds.

The same square, heavy pencil as the meat orders.

I read it out loud, because my hands were shaking too much to read it quiet.

"Raylene," I read.

"If you're reading this, somebody finally opened the real copy. So either you made it fifteen years, or my family tried to stop you."

"I wrote page nine on a Tuesday night, after you built my fire without being asked. You'd been here three months."

"My wife has run this family since before Darrell could walk. She runs it like a register. Nobody in it owns anything she can't take back."

"You came here with a knife roll. I've watched how this family treats people who come with a knife roll."

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