The Nice Girl Gets Even novel · Chapter 21 of 24

Chapter 21: Fat Tuesday

"You're welcome to sue the owner of 1420 Government Street," I said. "After eleven tomorrow morning, that's me. And eleven friends."

I held the papers up so she could see the banker's name.

"We're very hard to take things from, Margot. We keep everything."

She stared at the page.

Then the lobby clock struck twelve, and it was Fat Tuesday.

"Happy birthday," I said.

I meant it, a little.

That was the worst part for her.

The detective opened the door, and the cold came in, and Margot went out into it.

The bail hearing was at nine the next morning, on the third floor of the county courthouse.

Emmett went.

I went with him, because he asked me to, in the truck, without looking at me.

We sat in the back row.

His parents sat in the front, his mother in a black coat and dark glasses, his father very straight.

Margot came in through a side door in a county jumpsuit with her hair in a rubber band.

No ring.

The deputy had it in a plastic bag.

She was thirty years old that morning.

She saw her parents and started crying, the real kind this time, ugly and red.

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