The Family Photo That Didn't Have Me In It novel · Chapter 15 of 24
Chapter 15: Dillon
"That's not how alcohol works," I said.
The lawyer turned.
"Your body burns about one drink an hour. If I'd been drunk enough to drive into my brother at nine-forty, I'd still be drunk at ten-thirty."
"I blew zeros twenty minutes after the crash. My sister blew a point one four."
"That isn't law," I said. "That's chemistry. I'm a chemist."
The officer at the desk looked down at her keyboard to hide her face.
The detective took the folder from her and tucked it under his arm.
"We'll add it to the file, counselor," he said. "With everything else."
At eight in the morning they charged Amelie with driving under the influence, causing serious injury.
I heard it from Raegan, who heard it from a nurse, who heard Mom screaming about it in the family lounge.
Raegan was waiting outside the station in a puffy coat over pajama pants with cartoon lemons on them.
She had a clean sweatshirt for me in a plastic bag and two gas station coffees.
She didn't ask anything.
She held out the bag and said, "You smell like a frat house that got stabbed."
I laughed so hard I had to sit down on the curb.
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