Sheriff Shifflett answered with a cheery, “Hello Lovely,” when I called, and I so wanted to have just called him to talk, to be simply in this first stage of dating where everything is new and rosy.
Instead, I said, “We found a body. I think it’s a woman. She’s been dead a long time.”
I heard the hiss of air through his teeth before he said, “At the warehouse that you and Saul were scoping today?”
Santiago and I had sat on my porch the night before and talked about this project and the dreams I had for my business. Finding a skeleton had not been part of that dream. “Yes, in the basement, but I’m outside because Sawyer is in the car. Saul is staying with the body.” I whispered the last word because my son was learning more and more vocabulary every day, and now, here he was with me for
