Betrayed, I Rise novel · Chapter 23 of 32
Chapter 23: Twenty-Three
I zoomed in until the pixels broke apart.
It was the RV.
There was only one like it in Florida. There was only one with her face on the side.
I carried the laptop downstairs.
Troy was asleep on the couch in his smoky clothes.
I sat on the floor next to him and touched his arm.
He woke up, all at once.
"What?"
I turned the screen toward him.
He looked for a long time.
"One-twelve," he said.
"The trucks came at one-thirty-one. It's gone in my next frame, at one-nineteen. It was backing out."
"It can't turn around on that road."
"No."
He sat up. There was soot in the creases of his knuckles.
"Fire marshal," he said. "First thing."
On Friday morning we drove the RAW file to the fire marshal's office on a card.
He looked at it for a while.
"That's a vehicle on a public road," he said. "I'll send it to the sheriff's detective. It's her case now."
That was all.
Saturday was my birthday.
I woke at six to the dog licking my hand, and I lay there knowing it before I checked the date.
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