The Lost Quarterback Returns novel · Chapter 21 of 24
Chapter 21: The Sheet
"My son hasn't slept in a month," Bernadette said.
Her voice was gentle now, the voice she used on sick friends.
"His wife has been unwell for years, and he is a loving man who has been talked into terrible things."
"There is no document. There is no test. There is only a woman with a history."
The room didn't know where to look.
I could feel four hundred people deciding.
I stood up from table one, and my chair went back on the carpet with a scrape.
"Sir," I said, loud enough for the back rows. "I brought you what you asked for."
The owner didn't look at Bernadette.
"I have it," he said. "My technician has had it since noon."
He lifted two fingers toward the back of the room.
"Put it up."
The giant screen behind the stage went white, and then there was a sheet of yellowed paper two stories tall.
LABORATORY REPORT.
HARTSELL, E.
Under it ran a date, four days after the fire, and a technician's stamp.
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