The Bully Found My Photos, So Now I Kneel on Command novel · Chapter 10 of 24

Chapter 10: The Ledger

Hannah held the photograph out across the church kitchen table, and Judah did not take it.

It was a print on cheap drugstore paper, four inches by six.

Tate Hatchett stood waist-deep in Marrow Creek with his shirt off, laughing at something out of frame.

Judah had taken it in July.

The corner was creased where a thumb had held it.

"It came in an envelope with no stamp," Hannah said. "Someone put it in our mailbox."

It was three in the morning, and the only light came from the stove hood.

She had put the kettle on and had not made the tea.

"Ask your friend what he does at night," Judah said, flat.

"That's what the note said."

"Hannah, I..." Judah said.

"Is it yours?"

Judah looked at the print.

Then he looked at her, with her braid coming undone and her church cardigan buttoned wrong, and he made himself say it.

"Yes."

"You took it."

"I took a lot of them." His voice was thin. "From across the hollow. For seven months."

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