Major Hannah Nolan Comes Home to Chesapeake and Discovers Nineteen Thousand Dollars Gone
Say it now.”
“All right, Derek.”
“Good girl.” It landed on me like a hand I hadn’t asked for.
“And don’t talk to anybody at the county until I’m standing in that house.
Ma has a guy in that office who’s helping us sort it out.”
The line clicked off.
I walked up the driveway with the mail against my chest.
The front door stuck the way it had the day I came home, and I put my shoulder into it and shoved.
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