Chapter 16 — The Man in the Cap

The next morning I went out for groceries, and there was a tall man in a dark cap on the corner, watching my building.

My body knew before my mind did.

I made myself keep walking, unhurried, and stepped into a pharmacy, and went straight through it and out the back, and lost myself in the foot traffic of the street, my heart going so hard I could feel it in my teeth.

That afternoon my phone rang, unlisted.

“Mrs.