CHAPTER TWENTY SIX
As the evening rolled on, Kate noticed that Sheriff Bannerman looked like he was in shock. He worked well and managed to keep his head above the water, but Kate knew the look on his face very well. She was pretty sure that when he got home that night, he was going to think long and hard about the years he had served as a sheriff and what his retirement might look like.
Kate did not get a chance to really speak to him until the ambulance had left the Forester house with Anna inside. As far as they could tell from first glance, she was going to have some massive bruising around her neck and she was in a serious state of shock. But all in all, Anna Forester was going to turn out okay.
When the ambulance left and the last of the patrol cars left behind it, Bannerman went
