Major Hannah Nolan Comes Home to Chesapeake and Discovers Nineteen Thousand Dollars Gone
“You took off for six months, Major, so don’t lecture us about responsibility.”
“I’m not lecturing.
I’m asking where your brother left my daughter.”
“He left her with a grown-up in the house.
That’s what he told Mama, and that’s what he told me.”
“There was no one in the house, Jenna.
There was a speaker on the doorbell.”
The line went silent so long that I checked the screen to see if she’d hung up.