Chapter 15 — What Do You Want
The officer closed his notebook.
“The story’s clear enough.
Mrs.
Ashcroft, you’re fortunate the injured party hasn’t chosen to press charges.
If she had, I’d be putting you in a car right now.
This footage is police evidence now.
Do not let there be another incident.”
Marlene collapsed into a plastic chair, the breath gone out of her.
Shane started calling me that afternoon and kept calling.