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Levi
I wasn’t a bit surprised when the police officers found me, even though I was sitting by myself in a hospital corridor. One of the nurses bustling past had probably seen me and reported my whereabouts to a friend, who then called her mother, who subsequently texted her sister, whose neighbor happened to be on the police force––or some such similar nonsense. That was how the small-town grapevine worked.
You couldn’t break wind in Brunswick Bay Harbor without the entire town discussing it ad nauseum. It was one of the main reasons why I’d always thought I wanted to get away from here. There had only ever been one reason for me to stay, and she was sitting just on the other side of that door, worried sick about her little girl.
I tried to drum up a smile as the grim-faced officers
