Major Hannah Nolan Comes Home to Chesapeake and Discovers Nineteen Thousand Dollars Gone

“She says you took it to the desert.”

“The mountains,” I said.

“Mostly.”

Lily pushed it into my hand and wrapped both arms around my leg, and I laid my palm on the back of her head and kept it there.

“There was a car in your driveway Tuesday,” Evelyn said.

“I noticed because your grass was so tall.

Patricia’s car.”

“I know.