Done in Fifteen Years novel · Chapter 18 of 32
Chapter 18: The Photos
I scrolled through all six photos with brisket grease on my thumb.
They'd been taken from across the river.
Somebody had stood in the willows at dawn with a long lens and waited.
The comments were already up to two hundred.
"Poor Darrell."
"That poor child."
"Fifteen years and she's in a trailer with the first man who looked at her."
"Isn't that the process server??"
The night pitman took his phone back.
I put the knife down.
Deke came in the back door with sawdust still in his hair.
He'd seen it.
"Raylene, I'm sorry. I should've thought."
"Don't you dare be sorry." I untied my apron. "Where's the Saturday church breakfast?"
He stared at me.
"In Cypress Flat?"
"First Methodist. Fellowship hall. Doreen pours coffee from seven to nine every Saturday of her life. It's her favorite thing."
I looked at the clock.
8:14.
"Vernie," I called. "Can I borrow your car?"
Vernie's car was a 1988 Buick the color of a peach, with a dashboard covered in church fans.
She threw me the keys from the counter without asking why.
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